[ltp] R52 woes

Tue, 6 Dec 2005 13:52:34 +0100

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I can't give you any clue on this, but I own an R52 (with the Intel graphic=
s
card) and it works 100% fine with Ubuntu. Maybe you should change to anothe=
r
distribution.

Jaime

2005/11/21, Torsten Wolf <t.wolf@tu-bs.de>:
>
> Hi!
>
> Recently, I purchased a Thinkpad R52 (1847-W62) (lspci output attached).
> Besides some really nice features and hardware components, few issues
> constantly drive me crazy. Mainly, there are two problems.
>
> * ATI driver
> Well, this one is perhaps only a matter of time. However, I have tried
> hard to get the recent driver (8.19.10) work flawlessly. After bootup I
> see a real nice performance with DRI enabled. 3D Rendering works fine,
> even moving and redrawing transparent aterms is much faster compared to
> the Xorg driver. After suspending to RAM the laptop resumes sucessfully
> with DRI still available. Waking up from suspending to disk works fine,
> but invoking glxinfo results in a kernel oops:
>
> [fglrx:create_buffer_queue] *ERROR* PCIe was not acquired
> (complete oops attached)
>
> X freezes, but the laptop is still accessible via network and can be
> rebooted without problems. I posted this on http://ati.cchtml.com but up
> to now got no response. On thinkwiki.org I found several reports about
> successful suspend/resume with the latest ATI driver but no information
> whether DRI is still working afterwards. So what is your experience on
> this topic? While playing with the parameters in hibernate.conf I found
> that any usage of vbetool would result in a complete freeze after
> resume, so this would be no solution. In the meantime, the Xorg driver
> allows for a safe suspend/resume.
>
> * System instability
> Currently, I stick to 2.6.12, with libata- & sata-pm-patches applied.
> With 2.6.14 I had major problems using the dvd-writer. cdrecord listed
> the device only once. Afterwards there were scsi timeouts and a garbled
> output of cdrecord -scanbus. So the issues I have here might be kernel
> related and vanish with a recent version. However, every now and then I
> see freezes both at work (using the internal gigabit device -- tg3
> driver) and ugly crashes with lots of oopses and segfautlts at home,
> where I have a wireless network. The problems at home have (up to now)
> vanished after applying the ipw2200 patch from
> http://bughost.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3D821. But at work the laptop
> still hangs from time to time. Today I burned a dvd without errors, but
> 30% before finishing the next cd-r the box froze. A few days ago, I
> needed three tries to finish a backup of the filesystem across the
> network. In such situations I cannot log on via network but reboot the
> laptop using the sysrq keys. I checked the memory (2x512MB) with
> memtest86+ for 12 hours but found no error. With respect to the
> displayed temperatures, the laptop does not get that hot (CPU ~53, GPU
> ~51, HDD ~35/40 acpi/smartctl; all degC). I also considered a defect in
> the hardware (e.g.  a weak soldering point), but how to track this down?
> Would IBM replace the mainboard or just the wlan card or the whole
> device? What should I check before contacting the support? What causes
> me real headaches is that I do not see any regularity in these failures.
> I can run numbercrunching apps with the CPU temperature rising up to
> 72degC, stress the wlan device or copy several GB across the network and
> nothing would happen. So any hints what to check next are greatly
> appreciated!
>
> Thanks for reading so far. Best wishes,
> Torsten
>
>
>

--

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email: capitanplaneta ARROBA gmail PUNTO com
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I can't give you any clue on this, but I own an R52 (with the Intel
graphics card) and it works 100% fine with Ubuntu. Maybe you should
change to another distribution.<br>
<br>
Jaime<br>
<br><br><div><span class=3D"gmail_quote">2005/11/21, Torsten Wolf &lt;<a hr=
ef=3D"mailto:t.wolf@tu-bs.de">t.wolf@tu-bs.de</a>&gt;:</span><blockquote cl=
ass=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); mar=
gin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi!<br><br>Recently, I purchased a Thinkpad R52 (1847-W62) (lspci output at=
tached).<br>Besides some really nice features and hardware components, few =
issues<br>constantly drive me crazy. Mainly, there are two problems.<br>
<br>* ATI driver<br>Well, this one is perhaps only a matter of time. Howeve=
r, I have tried<br>hard to get the recent driver (8.19.10) work flawlessly.=
 After bootup I<br>see a real nice performance with DRI enabled. 3D Renderi=
ng works fine,
<br>even moving and redrawing transparent aterms is much faster compared to=
<br>the Xorg driver. After suspending to RAM the laptop resumes sucessfully=
<br>with DRI still available. Waking up from suspending to disk works fine,
<br>but invoking glxinfo results in a kernel oops:<br><br>[fglrx:create_buf=
fer_queue] *ERROR* PCIe was not acquired<br>(complete oops attached)<br><br=
>X freezes, but the laptop is still accessible via network and can be<br>
rebooted without problems. I posted this on <a href=3D"http://ati.cchtml.co=
m">http://ati.cchtml.com</a> but up<br>to now got no response. On <a href=
=3D"http://thinkwiki.org">thinkwiki.org</a> I found several reports about<b=
r>
successful suspend/resume with the latest ATI driver but no information<br>=
whether DRI is still working afterwards. So what is your experience on<br>t=
his topic? While playing with the parameters in hibernate.conf I found<br>
that any usage of vbetool would result in a complete freeze after<br>resume=
, so this would be no solution. In the meantime, the Xorg driver<br>allows =
for a safe suspend/resume.<br><br>* System instability<br>Currently, I stic=
k to=20
2.6.12, with libata- &amp; sata-pm-patches applied.<br>With 2.6.14 I had ma=
jor problems using the dvd-writer. cdrecord listed<br>the device only once.=
 Afterwards there were scsi timeouts and a garbled<br>output of cdrecord -s=
canbus. So the issues I have here might be kernel
<br>related and vanish with a recent version. However, every now and then I=
<br>see freezes both at work (using the internal gigabit device -- tg3<br>d=
river) and ugly crashes with lots of oopses and segfautlts at home,<br>
where I have a wireless network. The problems at home have (up to now)<br>v=
anished after applying the ipw2200 patch from<br><a href=3D"http://bughost.=
org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3D821">http://bughost.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cg=
i?id=3D821
</a>. But at work the laptop<br>still hangs from time to time. Today I burn=
ed a dvd without errors, but<br>30% before finishing the next cd-r the box =
froze. A few days ago, I<br>needed three tries to finish a backup of the fi=
lesystem across the
<br>network. In such situations I cannot log on via network but reboot the<=
br>laptop using the sysrq keys. I checked the memory (2x512MB) with<br>memt=
est86+ for 12 hours but found no error. With respect to the<br>displayed te=
mperatures, the laptop does not get that hot (CPU ~53, GPU
<br>~51, HDD ~35/40 acpi/smartctl; all degC). I also considered a defect in=
<br>the hardware (e.g.&nbsp;&nbsp;a weak soldering point), but how to track=
 this down?<br>Would IBM replace the mainboard or just the wlan card or the=
 whole
<br>device? What should I check before contacting the support? What causes<=
br>me real headaches is that I do not see any regularity in these failures.=
<br>I can run numbercrunching apps with the CPU temperature rising up to
<br>72degC, stress the wlan device or copy several GB across the network an=
d<br>nothing would happen. So any hints what to check next are greatly<br>a=
ppreciated!<br><br>Thanks for reading so far. Best wishes,<br>Torsten<br>
<br><br></blockquote></div><br><br clear=3D"all"><br>-- <br><br>Jaime Inies=
ta AKA Capit=E1n planeta<br>email: capitanplaneta ARROBA gmail PUNTO com<br=
>jabber: capitanplaneta ARROBA jabberes PUNTO org<br>webs: <a href=3D"http:=
//capitanplaneta.blogspot.com/">
http://capitanplaneta.blogspot.com/</a>

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