On Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 05:53:54PM +0100, maximilian attems wrote: > hey guys, > > you are reporting bug reports about things you don't know > how they should work. *fun* er... no, i'm posting a bug report about a misbehaviour of the kernel. how am I wrong about how I think things should work? and if you think I'm doing this just for fun, maybe I should stop doing this because it's not particularly pleasant, especially right now. > how about posting to debian-user?? I honestly haven't thought of that, maybe I should head there, if you think this is not a bug, which I highly doubt. > 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. yes, i understand that. I highly suspect the BIOS/ACPI to be broken with this regard on this laptop. > please look up similar reports on the linux laptop site. I did this some time ago. I found this: http://website.lineone.net/~bryanrpoole/a30-141.html and this: http://web.archive.org/web/20050205233442/tiptsoft.com/laptop/linux.html The first one doesn't talk about ACPI/suspend/resume at all. The second one mentions it doesn't work (or that S1 and S2 don't work and that S4 works, which is not the case here). I've also started documenting the laptop some time ago: http://wiki.koumbit.net/TheAnarcat/ToshibaSatelliteA30 So I have dug out quite a bit of information out there. > > 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 I'll try this out, thanks. > best regards In solidarity... A.
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