[ltp] T42 and Squeeze

David Griffith linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Fri, 1 Jul 2011 13:56:53 -0700 (PDT)


On Fri, 1 Jul 2011, Martin Steigerwald wrote:

> Am Donnerstag, 30. Juni 2011 schrieb David Griffith:
>> I switched my Thinkpad T42 from Ubuntu 10.10 to Debian Squeeze and now
>> I get a black-screened delay of around a minute when recovering from a
>> suspend or hibernation.  Am I forgetting something?  Ubuntu didn't
>> delay like this, nor did Debian Sarge or Etch when I used those.
>
> No problems with Squeeze, well Wheezy now with 2.6.37, 2.6.38.
>
> But well if you try a newer kernel, better avoid 2.6.34 to 2.6.36.1 if I
> remember correctly. They had a nasty bug with Radeon KMS that freezes the
> system completely at unexpected times. I made a kernel bug report and
> someone else a freedesktop one about this.
>
> But then I think I didn't have problems with 2.6.32, but I do think that I
> had KMS disabled with that one.
>
> You can try disabling KMS under /etc/modprobe.d/radeon-kms.conf to see
> whether that is really the issue.

That fixed the problem.  Thanks!  I'll continue with building a 2.6.39 
kernel to see if KMS got fixed and report back here and to the kernel 
mailing list.


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