Yay!
It's over, finally over.
Ever since about 10.3.3, my PowerBook G4 has had a problem. When you shut its lid, it would go to sleep. But when you opened it back up, 80% of the time it would sound like it was waking up, but wouldn't. The screen would be black, nothing would work, and you'd be forced to restart it.
This was a massive pain in the butt. It's a laptop, so I sleep it all the time, and being forced to restart was disruptive. I found that putting the laptop to sleep manually before shutting the lid helped, but I'd still occasionally get the blackout problem.
Today, 10.3.8 came out:
Addresses an issue in which a PowerBook G4 computer would, on rare occasion, wake from sleep with a black screen and not respond to any keyboard, mouse, or trackpad input.
“On rare occasion”? Bullshit. This was a nasty, persistent problem for me.
But it's gone now, with 10.3.8. Gone!
Comments
I've seen this happen on my PowerBook (15" G4/800) exactly twice since 10.3 came out. A former coworker had it happen on his (17" G4/1.33) about twice a week. So it varies... wonder what the problem really was.
Posted by: Nicholas Riley | February 9, 2005 11:18 PM
Mine's a 15"/1.25. I had it so bad that nearly every time I tried to wake the PowerBook up, I was dreading that it would happen. Now I'm curious as to the root cause. Anyone from Apple?
Posted by: Avi | February 9, 2005 11:26 PM
"On rare occasion" doesn't mean rare for you, but rare in general. I've never seen this, for example, on either of my PowerBooks. As for the cause, well, it's complicated -- sleep problems always are -- and I'll leave it at that. :)
Posted by: Eric Albert | February 10, 2005 12:04 AM
Well, OK, Eric. But I know someone else who has a 15"/1.25 and he was having this problem just as often as I was. And _his_ friend has a 15"/1.25 too, and he did too...
Posted by: Avi | February 10, 2005 12:26 AM