Linux on a laptop ... step 2?

[warlord at MIT.EDU (Derek Atkins)]

Ed Hill <ed at eh3.com> writes:

> 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!  ;-)

I've got the 2379-DYU.  I _do_ have the acpi_sleep=s3_bios but I do not
have the pci=noacpi.

> 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

Nope, I'm not using a USB-key-type flash drive.  I _do_ have a DVD-RW
in the ultrabay (and for some reason the ibm_acpi doesn't seem to want
to let me eject the drive).  I'm wondering if it has something to do
with the cdrom device being built into the kernel instead of being
built as a module.  Whenever I try to eject the drive, or run "echo
eject > /proc/acpi/ibm/bay" the system goes into an infinite loop of
"hdc" IDE errors and hangs forever.

But that's a different problem (I think) than the random hangs I get.

I'm using kernel-2.6.11-1.14_FC3.  I don't recall if I had them with
kernel-2.6.10-1.770_FC3 or not, as it's been a long while since I used
that version.

-derek
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