S3 Wake Fails With FC5 2.6.17 Kernels
Gene Heskett
gene.heskett at verizon.net
Sun Aug 6 20:20:35 UTC 2006
On Sunday 06 August 2006 13:44, Gilbert Sebenste wrote:
>On Sun, 6 Aug 2006, Garry T. Williams wrote:
>> S3 wake-up fails on all FC5 2.6.17 kernels on my laptop.
>>
>> Laptop is a Sony VAIO FS-640/W.
>
>The sleep error has been reported and is widely known. It was fixed in
>kernel.org release 2.6.17.7. Fedora kernel developers are waiting for
>2.6.17.8 to be released, reportedly "very soon"...because 2.6.17 has bad
>memory leaks in addition to numerous bugs that will be fixed in 2.6.17.8.
>I am restless myself for this new kernel, but I'm just gonna have to
>patiently wait...
>
I'm getting nervous about 2.6.17.7 myself, I've had several outright
crashes of amanda in the middle of a run, and last night I was playing
solitare while waiting for amanda to finish when the whole system went
black. There is definitely a problem of some sort IMO possibly related to
memory management.
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