Bug#494130: G35: after resume from suspend-to-ram, cannot restart X server

["Doug Larrick" <doug@ties.org>]

Brice Goglin wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 08, 2008 at 07:54:28AM +0200, Brice Goglin wrote:
>
>> I would say this is a kernel bug since the PCI layout isn't supposed to
>> change like this. Fortunately, the PCI maintainer in the kernel is also
>> one of the Intel driver maintainer, I'll talk to him.
>
> 17:18 < jbarnes> bgoglin: ooh that's weird
> 17:20 < bgoglin> yeah
> 17:22 < jbarnes> bgoglin: so it looks like the bios may not be restoring
> the memory controller regs correctly on resume
> 17:23 < jbarnes> I remember seeing a similar bug on those asus boards
> 17:23 < jbarnes> a bios upgrade might fix it
>
> So Doug, can you check whether a BIOS upgrade is available for your
> machine?

My BIOS is up to date, or was as of yesterday -- ASUS posted a new version
this morning (though it only lists "supports new CPUs" as changes).  I
will give it a try tonight.

-Doug