[ltp] T61 locking up

[John Jason Jordan]

On Sun, 14 Sep 2008 10:32:04 +0200
Yves-Alexis Perez <corsac@debian.org> dijo:

> On dim, 2008-09-14 at 00:03 -0700, John Jason Jordan wrote:
> > There are various options and terms and I do not understand them.
> > Let's start with "suspend" v. "hibernate." What is the difference?
> 
> “suspend” means “suspend to ram”. Meaning the computer is up but
> sleeping and resume is fast.
> “hibernate” means “suspend to disk”. Everything in memory is copied to
> disk, and the computer is shut down completely. At restart, the content
> of the memory is copied from disk to memory. This is slower, but costs
> less battery life during the sleep.

Thanks for the clarification.

I should have added to my original message that the computer has the
nVidia Quadro 140M and I am using the nvidia-glx-new driver from
Synaptic (169.12+2.6.24.13-1). I also have installed
linux-restricted-modules:

linux-restricted-modules-2.6.24-16-generic
linux-restricted-modules-2.6.24-18-generic
linux-restricted-modules-2.6.24-19-generic
nvidia-kernel-common, version 20051028+1ubuntu
nvidia-settings, version 1.0+20080304-0ubuntu1.1
xserver-xorg-video-nv, version 1:2.1.8-1ubuntu1
jockey-common, version 0.3.3-0ubuntu8
jockey-gtk, version 0.3.3-0ubuntu8

I don't know for sure what all of those do or if anything is missing
that ought to be installed, or if something is installed that ought not
to be installed. All I can say is that searching in Synaptic for
"nvidia" turned up 30-40 packages and those are the ones marked as
installed.

I do know that I added nvidia-settings to help me get the video output
working with the beamers in classrooms at the university. The locking
up problem was going on long before that, so nvidia-settings is not the
cause of the problem.

I should also add the following:

jjj@Devil7:~$ uname -a
Linux Devil7 2.6.24-19-generic #1 SMP Wed Aug 20 17:53:40 UTC 2008
x86_64 GNU/Linux

Any further suggestions are welcome. Even if it is not the answer it
may jog a stray electron in my upper story and prompt me to think of
something else to try.