Inspiron 8200 X crashes when going to standby

[Peace-B-Witchu]

I have a Inspiron 8200 with geforce 4 440 go card. The problem is when apm is enabled and tries to blank the monitor it crashes X hard when on battery power, when plugged in to AC it works fine. This is the same on Redhat 8.0 and 7.3. I have the drivers installed correctly and they work flawlessly except for this. Suspend to ram works everytime after I hacked the driver with the 2 line patch. I have tried to disable blanking the monitor in apmd and in XF86Config but it still tries to balank monitor and crash X. You guys have any ideas.

Thanks,
Peace

[Klaus-P]

Switch to textconsole (text mode) while you aren't actively working in X,
and try to disable the display APM in your BIOS. It's not just a good solution, but
'APM and nvidia drivers' IS a problem as yet.