[ltp] sleeping pcmcia and hanging X

[Brad Langhorst]

On Thursday 10 May 2001 01:48 pm, you wrote:
> Hello, I've recently begun the process of trying to install Linux on my
> tp600x. I've tried a number of distributions including rh7.1 and debian
> (libranet) with varying degrees of success. Under redhat 7.1 (+ updates), I
> find that my pcmcia nic (3com 575CT) seems to go to sleep after a period of
> time. If I issue a cardctl suspend, cardctl eject, cardctl insert, it seems
> to wake up and things are fine. I'd like to fix this (I know it's possible
> since with my debian install this doesn't happen). 
stick with debian ;)
probably this has to do with the pcmcia package you have installed under 
redhat. try downloading the latest from sourceforge instead.

>More discouraging
> though, is that I have seemingly random lockups under X. KDE or Gnome, it
> doesn't seem to matter. It has occurred in KMail, as well as various
> control panels. When this happens it locks up badly. I can telnet into the
> machine, but killing X related processes only leaves the screen blank. I
> must shutdown and do a cold restart, apparently to reset the video
> hardware. Otherwise it'll come up blank if I just reboot and startx. RH 7.1
> ships with XFree86 4.x, but from the archives I would think that this isn't
> the problem. There's also the fact that it seems to work perfectly fine...
> until. Sorry about the long  email. I'm *really* trying to wean myself away
> from my win2k partition, but at this point, I still have to go back to it.
> Thanks in advance for any pointers.
Does this occur under both debian and redhat?
Sounds like it might be some kind of hardware problem given that cold boot 
requirement.  Is there anything telling in  /var/log/XFree86.0.log? you might 
try posting that file if you're not sure.

My machine is quite similar (770E) and is very stable.  That video business 
has never happened to me.  There are a bunch of 600 series users on the list 
who might know more.

good luck!

brad

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