[ltp] X22 GL perfomance? [I spoke to soon - crashes ACPI!]

Richard Neill linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Sun, 11 Jun 2006 18:49:51 +0100


>>This is really weird. Having fixed the GL issues, I now discovered that
>>suspend fails. Previously, the machine was very reliable:
> 
> 
>>  chvt 1; echo 3 > /proc/acpi/sleep
>>
>>and it would wake up every time.
> 
> 
>>Now, I found that it suspends fine (and the crescent light comes on),
>>but it fails to resume: the HDD powers up, the crescent doesn't go out,
>>thereafter, it is totally dead.
> 
> 
> Up until recently, my wife used our X22 as her presentation machine
> running Ubuntu Breezy.  3D acceleration was enabled, and she had the
> machine configured to hibernate when closing the lid.  (I believe this
> used in-kernel software suspend.)  This was very reliable, and didn't take
> very long with a 5400 RPM drive and 640M main memory.  Suspend wasn't
> useful on that machine because of another issue - too much battery drain
> during suspend.
> 
> I don't have the X22 with me at the moment, but I'll try out ACPI suspend
> on it and see what happens later.


Thanks - that would be very useful. Also, which kernel and X are you 
using? I'm using X 6.9.0, and kernel 2.6.12 or 2.6.16

Richard