[ltp] WARNING: Disable (remove) all TPM drivers before suspend

Matthias Runge linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Mon, 05 Jan 2009 16:19:32 +0100


Chris Schumann wrote:
> Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
>> This is a big fat warning to all ThinkPad users: do not suspend or resume
>> with any of the TPM drivers loaded.  This goes triple for tpm-nsc,
>> which I
>> have verified to hard-crash 2.6.27 and 2.6.26 if you get conditions just
>> right (on suspend).
> 
> Just barely reading the content on here, and not doing anything
> experimental (just running F10, suffering without suspend because I have
> an ATI video chip), if I did, say "lsmod | grep tpm" and got nothing, I
> should be OK, right?
> 
> Thanks,
> Chris
> 
Hi,

you may get suspend/resume working by appending "nomodeset" to your
kernel command line.

Matthias