Benjamin Cama <benoar@free.fr> wrote:
> I regularly use the sleep feature of my iBook, and it works quite well
> with a recent kernel, thanks to BenH patches. I used to have a
> ubuntu-built 2.6.12, but it oopsed when waking from sleep while an USB
> peripheral was plugged in (in my case, an USB mouse). I had to think to
> unplug it each time i put my ibook to sleep, which i didn't remember all
> the time... I found that this kernel had this problem, but that it was
> resolved in more recent ones.
> So i built a vanilla 2.6.14.3 kernel, and it worked well even when my
> mouse was plugged-in and that i put my ibook to sleep. But one day, it
> couldn't wake up, hanging on this screen :
> http://benoar.free.fr/ibook_hangs.jpg
> I tried to find the cause, but i couldn't reproduce this bug. I think it
> is still due to some USB-related problem (you can see on the top of the
> screen a previous wake-from-sleep that succeeded). It worked well for
> another period, but this bug reappeared after a while.
>
> It doesn't appear very often, and i can't reproduce this exactly, hence
> the "random" of the subject of this mail. I didn't try a more recent
> kernel (2.6.15 ?) but i could check, if someone thinks it comes from
> this particular version.
I can confirm this bug. I see it since the update from 2.6.13.1 to 15.1.
$ cat /proc/cpuinfo
cpu : 7455, altivec supported
revision : 0.3 (pvr 8001 0303)
motherboard : PowerBook6,3 MacRISC3 Power Macintosh
detected as : 287 (iBook G4)
Bye, Jörg.
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