Linux on a laptop ... step 2?

[ed at eh3.com (Ed Hill)]

On Wed, 2005-05-18 at 12:07 -0400, Derek Atkins wrote:
> >
> > It brings my video driver back to life after an S3 sleep so that I don't
> > have a black screen that won't wake up.  I needed it for circa-2.6.9
> > kernels but perhaps newer ones don't need it.
> 
> Hmm, I've certainly never needed it to come back from sleep...

The "T42p" label appeared on a number of different models (2373-xxx,
2379-xxx, etc.).  And they have varying motherboards, peripherals, etc.
So, you have one that doesn't need the S3_bios bits.  Consider yourself
lucky!  ;-)


> > Speaking of sleep/hibernate, have you tried the FC3-compatible swsusp2-
> > patched kernels from M. Hensler:
> >
> >   http://mhensler.de/swsusp/
> >
> > Some of the recent ones (2.6.10-1.770_FC3 and 2.6.11-1.20_FC3) have
> > worked very nicely on my laptop.
> 
> No, I haven't tried swsusp yet.  I've been fairly happy so-far with
> just using suspend-to-ram.  The machine seems to lock up hard about
> once a week anyways (I haven't figured out what causes that).

Theres actually two versions: swsusp and swsusp2.  The former is in the
main-line kernel but is more-or-less moribund and the latter is an
improved approach that has not yet made it into the official (Linus')
tree.  Swsusp2 will probably be included before long since its popular,
actively developed, and its authors are trying to clear the remaining
hurdles for inclusion:  http://www.suspend2.net/

And in regard to the lockups, what kernel are you using and are you by
any chance using one of those USB-key-type flash drives?  A number of
people have had lockups with them:

  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=155472

and supposedly its fixed in more recent kernels.  I had a few odd
lockups with 2.6.11-1.14_F3 and have had none with the 2.6.11-1.20_FC3
kernel available at:

   http://mhensler.de/swsusp/download_en.php

Ed

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