Closing Dell inspiron 6000 shuts down window manager?

[spiffytech]

I'm trying puppy on a laptop computer (Dell inspiron 6000) aqnd every time I shut the display, the screen blanks and the only way I know to make it come back to life is to press control-alt-delete, which,of course, shuts down Puppy. How can O make the screen come back without doing this?

[BarryK]

ctrl-alt-backspace will just shut down X.
then xwin to restart X.

[Flash]

Could be it's actually shutting off the power to the display. Something to do with ACPI or whatever it's called?

[spiffytech]

It seems that it will come back on if I leave it alone open for a short while (10-30 minutes). I don't know why this is, though.