Bug#390040: linux-image-2.6.17-2-686: suspend to {disk, mem} fails on toshiba satellite A30
hey guys,
you are reporting bug reports about things you don't know
how they should work. *fun*
how about posting to debian-user??
On Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 11:27:54AM -0500, The Anarcat wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 04:07:08PM +0100, maximilian attems wrote:
> > On Thu, 28 Sep 2006, The Anarcat wrote:
> > how is linux image 2.6.18 doing?
>
> not much better.
>
> == echo mem > /sys/power/state ==
>
> This just shutsdown the machine spontaneously. I briefly see what looks
> like a progress bar saying "freeing memory" but this lasts less than a
> second so i could be wrong. Is this expected? Seems to me power
> shouldn't be completely turned off like this...
sure.
> When I boot the machine again, it comes back up, without going through
> the BIOS (apparently), ends up in a state where caps and num leds are
> on, nothing is responding and the LCD screen is empty (but active). The
> fan is turning like crazy so I guess it's doing *something*. I must hold
> onto the power button to make it turn off. Next power up leads to
> nothing, i need to hold the power button again to get to the bios and
> the regular bootup procedure. At this point, i'm stuck after the kernel
> and the initrd get loaded by grub: it's frozen again. This looks like
> when this laptop is overheating, btw. Doing a third reboot gets me into
> a useable session.
well that is very bios/bios_version dependent.
please look up similar reports on the linux laptop site.
> Also note that i'm running those tests with GDM/X11 stopped.
this is a good idea.
you might want to test newest 2.6.19 or 2.6.20-rc4 linux images
from buildserver, they have newer acpi.
http://wiki.debian.org/DebianKernel
best regards
--
maks
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