Bug#400488: no fans after S3 sleep on many laptops
severity 400488 critical
thanks
Bastian Blank wrote:
> > With the kernel from linux-image-2.6.18-2-686, fans for my laptop
> > (HP nc6120) don't work anymore after an S3 suspend/resume cycle. This
> > causes the system to spontaneously shutdown under load causing data
> > loss (or posibly it might even break the hardware), ergo the grave
> > severity.
>
> It does not fail for everyone, so grave is not appropriate.
Indeed, critial is more appropriate, as this bug causes data loss and
hardware damage.
IMO, the sitation is similar to bug #404143: like Andi said there:
> Consider you have bought such a laptop, and you install Debian. You have
> even read the release notes first. Everything works well. Until one
> day you notice your laptop gets too warm, and eventually even breaks
> because of this. On deeper research, you notice that this issue was
> well-known to Debian, but they refused to deal with it at all. How would
> you feel as a user? I think this is an unacceptable perspective.
I can very well imagine that you guys don't want to include these
patches in the default etch kernel at this time, but please document it
in the release notes, make the kernel refuse to run on this hardware, or
make the user aware of the problem in some other way.
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Kind regards,
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