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

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

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

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

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

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,

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

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 i

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

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 sw

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 > > a

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 yo

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 > > > k

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 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 th

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 L

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="qui

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. 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.

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

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

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

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 c

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/li

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/pmsuspe

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 > > > > > > > > ACP

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

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 basic

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 w

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 ac

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 /usr/sbin/pm

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 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

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 i

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 I

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 v

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 mac

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 compl

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 upd

[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 kernel-2.4.22.21mdk-1-1md