hey guys, you are reporting bug reports about things you don't know how they should work. *fun* how about posting to debian-user??
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. please look up similar reports on the linux laptop site. > 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 best regards -- maks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]