Re: [expert] Dell laptop hangs with 9.2 when lid closed. SOLVED!!

2003-11-12 Thread Mofeed Shahin
On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 16:19, Mof wrote: /var/log/messages somefilename.txt Then close the lid. and see if it gives you any useful info. I tried this but there is nothing showing up in /var/log/messages. Mof. What this indicates is that ACPI is doing what it thinks it's supposed to do

Re: [expert] Dell laptop hangs with 9.2 when lid closed. SOLVED!!

2003-11-12 Thread Mofeed Shahin
On Wednesday 12 Nov 2003 12:23 am, Mof wrote: On Wed, 12 Nov 2003 09:47 am, James Sparenberg wrote: On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 12:43, Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 11 Nov 2003 2:37 pm, Jack Coates wrote: With the extra information of not attempting resume allowing it to boot, I'll wager

Re: [expert] Dell laptop hangs with 9.2 when lid closed. SOLVED!!

2003-11-12 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 12 Nov 2003 7:32 am, Mofeed Shahin wrote: On Wednesday 12 Nov 2003 12:23 am, Mof wrote: On Wed, 12 Nov 2003 09:47 am, James Sparenberg wrote: On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 12:43, Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 11 Nov 2003 2:37 pm, Jack Coates wrote: With the extra information

Re: [expert] Dell laptop hangs with 9.2 when lid closed. SOLVED!!

2003-11-12 Thread Stew Benedict
On Wed, 12 Nov 2003, Anne Wilson wrote: /dev/hda7 which is 1G /dev/hda5 is my real swap partition. OK. Now have you checked that the suspend is now trying for hda7? And (sorry if this is insulting, it's not meant to be, but we all forget the obvious sometimes) there is a mount

Re: [expert] Dell laptop hangs with 9.2 when lid closed. SOLVED!!

2003-11-12 Thread James Sparenberg
On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 01:16, Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 12 Nov 2003 7:32 am, Mofeed Shahin wrote: On Wednesday 12 Nov 2003 12:23 am, Mof wrote: On Wed, 12 Nov 2003 09:47 am, James Sparenberg wrote: On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 12:43, Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 11 Nov 2003 2:37 pm,

Re: [expert] Dell laptop hangs with 9.2 when lid closed. SOLVED!!

2003-11-11 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 11 Nov 2003 6:02 am, Mof wrote: The rpm -e -nodeps suspend-scripts didn't work, so it became obvious that it was a kernel problem, so I thought I'd upgrade to the latest kernel, and see what happens, but as I was doing that I noticed something odd in lilo.conf : append=quiet

Re: [expert] Dell laptop hangs with 9.2 when lid closed. SOLVED!!

2003-11-11 Thread Mof
Done, but since I've not ever used TWiki before, you may want to check that I did it right :-) Mof. On Tuesday 11 November 2003 18:13, Anne Wilson wrote: Mof, could you put that on the TWiki? If you go to http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/HardwareIssues and click on the '?' after

Re: [expert] Dell laptop hangs with 9.2 when lid closed. SOLVED!!

2003-11-11 Thread Mof
On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 04:59 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 22:02, Mof wrote: The rpm -e -nodeps suspend-scripts didn't work, so it became obvious that it was a kernel problem, so I thought I'd upgrade to the latest kernel, and see what happens, but as I was doing that I

Re: [expert] Dell laptop hangs with 9.2 when lid closed. SOLVED!!

2003-11-11 Thread Jack Coates
On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 22:02, Mof wrote: The rpm -e -nodeps suspend-scripts didn't work, so it became obvious that it was a kernel problem, so I thought I'd upgrade to the latest kernel, and see what happens, but as I was doing that I noticed something odd in lilo.conf : append=quiet

Re: [expert] Dell laptop hangs with 9.2 when lid closed. SOLVED!!

2003-11-11 Thread James Sparenberg
On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 05:53, Mof wrote: On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 04:59 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 22:02, Mof wrote: The rpm -e -nodeps suspend-scripts didn't work, so it became obvious that it was a kernel problem, so I thought I'd upgrade to the latest kernel, and

Re: [expert] Dell laptop hangs with 9.2 when lid closed. SOLVED!!

2003-11-11 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 11 Nov 2003 2:37 pm, Jack Coates wrote: With the extra information of not attempting resume allowing it to boot, I'll wager that your swap contains a corrupted system image and is unusable as swap. free will show you no swap available. swapoff, format /dev/hda5, swapon. If you are

Re: [expert] Dell laptop hangs with 9.2 when lid closed. SOLVED!!

2003-11-11 Thread Charlie M.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tuesday 11 November 2003 1:43 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 11 Nov 2003 2:37 pm, Jack Coates wrote: With the extra information of not attempting resume allowing it to boot, I'll wager that your swap contains a corrupted system image and is

Re: [expert] Dell laptop hangs with 9.2 when lid closed. SOLVED!!

2003-11-11 Thread James Sparenberg
On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 12:43, Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 11 Nov 2003 2:37 pm, Jack Coates wrote: With the extra information of not attempting resume allowing it to boot, I'll wager that your swap contains a corrupted system image and is unusable as swap. free will show you no swap

Re: [expert] Dell laptop hangs with 9.2 when lid closed. SOLVED!!

2003-11-11 Thread Mof
On Wed, 12 Nov 2003 05:44 am, James Sparenberg wrote: On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 05:53, Mof wrote: On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 04:59 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 22:02, Mof wrote: The rpm -e -nodeps suspend-scripts didn't work, so it became obvious that it was a kernel

Re: [expert] Dell laptop hangs with 9.2 when lid closed. SOLVED!!

2003-11-11 Thread Mof
On Wed, 12 Nov 2003 09:47 am, James Sparenberg wrote: On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 12:43, Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 11 Nov 2003 2:37 pm, Jack Coates wrote: With the extra information of not attempting resume allowing it to boot, I'll wager that your swap contains a corrupted system image

Re: [expert] Dell laptop hangs with 9.2 when lid closed. SOLVED!!

2003-11-11 Thread James Sparenberg
On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 16:19, Mof wrote: On Wed, 12 Nov 2003 05:44 am, James Sparenberg wrote: On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 05:53, Mof wrote: On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 04:59 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 22:02, Mof wrote: The rpm -e -nodeps suspend-scripts didn't work, so it

Re: [expert] Dell laptop hangs with 9.2 when lid closed. SOLVED!!

2003-11-11 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 12 Nov 2003 12:23 am, Mof wrote: On Wed, 12 Nov 2003 09:47 am, James Sparenberg wrote: On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 12:43, Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 11 Nov 2003 2:37 pm, Jack Coates wrote: With the extra information of not attempting resume allowing it to boot, I'll wager

Re: [expert] Dell laptop hangs with 9.2 when lid closed.

2003-11-10 Thread Jack Coates
try rpm -e --nodeps suspend-scripts. On Sun, 2003-11-09 at 21:45, Mofeed Shahin wrote: reply-to still a problem. Yeah must be something I've done with kmail. On Sat, 2003-11-08 at 23:56, Mof wrote: On Sun, 9 Nov 2003 05:28 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: On Sat, 2003-11-08 at 16:44, Mof

Re: [expert] Dell laptop hangs with 9.2 when lid closed. SOLVED!!

2003-11-10 Thread Mof
The rpm -e -nodeps suspend-scripts didn't work, so it became obvious that it was a kernel problem, so I thought I'd upgrade to the latest kernel, and see what happens, but as I was doing that I noticed something odd in lilo.conf : append=quiet devfs=mount hdb=ide-scsi acpi=ht resume=/dev/hda5

Re: [expert] Dell laptop hangs with 9.2 when lid closed. SOLVED!!

2003-11-10 Thread James Sparenberg
On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 22:02, Mof wrote: The rpm -e -nodeps suspend-scripts didn't work, so it became obvious that it was a kernel problem, so I thought I'd upgrade to the latest kernel, and see what happens, but as I was doing that I noticed something odd in lilo.conf : append=quiet

Re: [expert] Dell laptop hangs with 9.2 when lid closed.

2003-11-09 Thread Jack Coates
On Sat, 2003-11-08 at 16:44, Mof wrote: On Sun, 9 Nov 2003 02:58 am, Jack Coates wrote: 1st: http://www.monkeynoodle.org/comp/reply-to huh ?? (page times out) sorry, a power line snapped on our street and power's been out for thirteen hours. That page explains why setting your reply-to on a

Re: [expert] Dell laptop hangs with 9.2 when lid closed.

2003-11-09 Thread James Sparenberg
On Sat, 2003-11-08 at 22:54, Jack Coates wrote: On Sat, 2003-11-08 at 15:27, Stew Benedict wrote: On Sat, 8 Nov 2003, Jack Coates wrote: On Sat, 2003-11-08 at 06:57, Jack Coates wrote: edit /etc/acpi/events/lid and comment out action=/usr/sbin/pmsuspend ACPI is attempting to

Re: [expert] Dell laptop hangs with 9.2 when lid closed.

2003-11-09 Thread Jack Coates
On Sat, 2003-11-08 at 14:22, James Sparenberg wrote: On Sat, 2003-11-08 at 08:28, Jack Coates wrote: 1st: http://www.monkeynoodle.org/comp/reply-to check /var/log/acpid... I just checked mine and found something spooky, which is that it's still trying to execute /usr/sbin/pmsuspend and

Re: [expert] Dell laptop hangs with 9.2 when lid closed.

2003-11-09 Thread Jack Coates
On Sat, 2003-11-08 at 22:54, James Sparenberg wrote: On Sat, 2003-11-08 at 22:54, Jack Coates wrote: On Sat, 2003-11-08 at 15:27, Stew Benedict wrote: On Sat, 8 Nov 2003, Jack Coates wrote: On Sat, 2003-11-08 at 06:57, Jack Coates wrote: edit /etc/acpi/events/lid and comment out

Re: [expert] Dell laptop hangs with 9.2 when lid closed.

2003-11-09 Thread Mof
On Sun, 9 Nov 2003 05:28 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: On Sat, 2003-11-08 at 16:44, Mof wrote: It appears that acpi and apm do the same thing, which is the prefered one to use anyway ? And if acpi is the prefered, how do I load up the right modules ? Mof. This order of commands should

Re: [expert] Dell laptop hangs with 9.2 when lid closed.

2003-11-09 Thread Jack Coates
reply-to still a problem. On Sat, 2003-11-08 at 23:56, Mof wrote: On Sun, 9 Nov 2003 05:28 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: On Sat, 2003-11-08 at 16:44, Mof wrote: It appears that acpi and apm do the same thing, which is the prefered one to use anyway ? And if acpi is the prefered, how

Re: [expert] Dell laptop hangs with 9.2 when lid closed.

2003-11-09 Thread Mofeed Shahin
reply-to still a problem. Yeah must be something I've done with kmail. On Sat, 2003-11-08 at 23:56, Mof wrote: On Sun, 9 Nov 2003 05:28 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: On Sat, 2003-11-08 at 16:44, Mof wrote: It appears that acpi and apm do the same thing, which is the prefered one to use

Re: [expert] Dell laptop hangs with 9.2 when lid closed.

2003-11-08 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Saturday 08 November 2003 12:43 am, Mofeed Shahin wrote: G'day all, I've just put 9.2 onto my Dell inspiron 8200, which is a Intel 2.2 Mobile chip, and ati radeon video. As soon as the lid is closed the the machine has a complete lock up. ie no keyboard, no mouse, and no screen

Re: [expert] Dell laptop hangs with 9.2 when lid closed.

2003-11-08 Thread Mof
On Saturday 08 November 2003, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Saturday 08 November 2003 12:43 am, Mofeed Shahin wrote: G'day all, I've just put 9.2 onto my Dell inspiron 8200, which is a Intel 2.2 Mobile chip, and ati radeon video. As soon as the lid is closed the the machine has a complete lock up.

Re: [expert] Dell laptop hangs with 9.2 when lid closed.

2003-11-08 Thread Greg Meyer
On Saturday 08 November 2003 08:05 am, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Saturday 08 November 2003 12:43 am, Mofeed Shahin wrote: G'day all, I've just put 9.2 onto my Dell inspiron 8200, which is a Intel 2.2 Mobile chip, and ati radeon video. As soon as the lid is closed the the machine has a

Re: [expert] Dell laptop hangs with 9.2 when lid closed.

2003-11-08 Thread Mof
On Saturday 08 November 2003, Greg Meyer wrote: On Saturday 08 November 2003 08:05 am, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Saturday 08 November 2003 12:43 am, Mofeed Shahin wrote: G'day all, I've just put 9.2 onto my Dell inspiron 8200, which is a Intel 2.2 Mobile chip, and ati radeon video. As

Re: [expert] Dell laptop hangs with 9.2 when lid closed.

2003-11-08 Thread Jack Coates
edit /etc/acpi/events/lid and comment out action=/usr/sbin/pmsuspend ACPI is attempting to trigger swsusp suspend-to-disk, which basically doesn't work on modern laptops. On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 21:43, Mofeed Shahin wrote: G'day all, I've just put 9.2 onto my Dell inspiron 8200, which is a

Re: [expert] Dell laptop hangs with 9.2 when lid closed.

2003-11-08 Thread Jack Coates
On Sat, 2003-11-08 at 06:57, Jack Coates wrote: edit /etc/acpi/events/lid and comment out action=/usr/sbin/pmsuspend ACPI is attempting to trigger swsusp suspend-to-disk, which basically doesn't work on modern laptops. ... that's actually not a fair comment, I should actually state that it

Re: [expert] Dell laptop hangs with 9.2 when lid closed.

2003-11-08 Thread Mof
I just tried that, and it still locks up. Mof. On Sun, 9 Nov 2003 01:27 am, Jack Coates wrote: edit /etc/acpi/events/lid and comment out action=/usr/sbin/pmsuspend ACPI is attempting to trigger swsusp suspend-to-disk, which basically doesn't work on modern laptops. On Fri, 2003-11-07 at

Re: [expert] Dell laptop hangs with 9.2 when lid closed.

2003-11-08 Thread Jack Coates
1st: http://www.monkeynoodle.org/comp/reply-to check /var/log/acpid... I just checked mine and found something spooky, which is that it's still trying to execute /usr/sbin/pmsuspend and just failing because the file was renamed /usr/sbin/pmsuspend2 (which also doesn't work to suspend the laptop).

Re: [expert] Dell laptop hangs with 9.2 when lid closed.

2003-11-08 Thread James Sparenberg
On Sat, 2003-11-08 at 08:28, Jack Coates wrote: 1st: http://www.monkeynoodle.org/comp/reply-to check /var/log/acpid... I just checked mine and found something spooky, which is that it's still trying to execute /usr/sbin/pmsuspend and just failing because the file was renamed

Re: [expert] Dell laptop hangs with 9.2 when lid closed.

2003-11-08 Thread Stew Benedict
On Sat, 8 Nov 2003, Jack Coates wrote: On Sat, 2003-11-08 at 06:57, Jack Coates wrote: edit /etc/acpi/events/lid and comment out action=/usr/sbin/pmsuspend ACPI is attempting to trigger swsusp suspend-to-disk, which basically doesn't work on modern laptops. ... that's actually not

Re: [expert] Dell laptop hangs with 9.2 when lid closed.

2003-11-08 Thread Mof
On Sun, 9 Nov 2003 02:58 am, Jack Coates wrote: 1st: http://www.monkeynoodle.org/comp/reply-to huh ?? (page times out) check /var/log/acpid... I just checked mine and found something spooky, which is that it's still trying to execute /usr/sbin/pmsuspend and just failing because the file was

Re: [expert] Dell laptop hangs with 9.2 when lid closed.

2003-11-08 Thread Jack Coates
On Sat, 2003-11-08 at 15:27, Stew Benedict wrote: On Sat, 8 Nov 2003, Jack Coates wrote: On Sat, 2003-11-08 at 06:57, Jack Coates wrote: edit /etc/acpi/events/lid and comment out action=/usr/sbin/pmsuspend ACPI is attempting to trigger swsusp suspend-to-disk, which basically

[expert] Dell laptop hangs with 9.2 when lid closed.

2003-11-07 Thread Mofeed Shahin
G'day all, I've just put 9.2 onto my Dell inspiron 8200, which is a Intel 2.2 Mobile chip, and ati radeon video. As soon as the lid is closed the the machine has a complete lock up. ie no keyboard, no mouse, and no screen updates I just tried upgrading the kernel to