On 2009-07-02, Jesse Sheidlower <jes...@panix.com> wrote: > > I have a two-year-old ThinkPad T60. It recently developed some > screen problems--the display was losing colors, and finally > started to die completely, going to black shortly after > startup--so I sent it back for a warranty repair. I pulled the > hard drive before I shipped it. > > It's back now, but the machine is now locking up hard at > various points in the boot process. The first few times it > froze at "Setting the system clock"; then at "Activing > swapfile swap". Now it is booting all the way and letting me > log into Gnome, but then locks up soon after. Needless to say, > it was working fine (aside from the screen) before the repair. > > They included a note saying that they had also upgraded the > BIOS and embedded controller--to 2.23 and 1.07 respectively. To figure out if it is the BIOS and embedded controller version cause this problem, you can downgrade the version to the one you used before.
> > I'm running Debian unstable, kernel 2.6.29-2-686. > > I'd be very grateful for any suggestion about what might have > caused this, and for how to evaluate and fix it. > > Thanks. > > Jesse Sheidlower > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
