Suspend bug

[oleksandr korneta]

on 02/03/2007 01:38 AM David G. Miller wrote:
> oleksandr korneta <atenrok at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> on 02/01/2007 12:20 PM David G. Miller wrote:
>>>> Alan <alan at lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
>>>>
>>>     
>>>>>> occurs during the second "suspend". System did not crash though, i mean
>>>>       
>>>>>>>> it was still functional except that the PM (power manager) throws a pop
>>>>>>>> up saying that the suspend was failed.
>>>>>         
>>>>>>   
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Does this occur if you don't have the proprietary nvidia drivers
>>>>>> installed ?
>>>>       
>>>> Save you the trouble of asking me the same question.  From xorg.conf for 
>>>> my laptop:
>>>>
>>>> ...
>>>> Section "Device"
>>>>         Identifier  "Videocard0"
>>>>         Driver      "radeon"
>>>> EndSection
>>>> ...
>>>>
>>>> The actual video device is an ATI Radeon Express 200M.
>>>     
>> I have Compaq Presario v2404us (consider it HP) Turion based. FC6 x86_64 
>> installed. Is is equipped with ATI Radeon Express 200M videodapter which 
>> I use with opensource drivers. I experience regular daily crashes (1-2 
>> times per day) with kernel panic (blinking CapsLock led, darks screen, 
>> non-responsive system). I did not notice any correlation between the 
>> crashes and my activity on this laptop, it can happen equally under 
>> heavy load as well as right after waking up the machine from the suspend 
>> mode.
>>
>> kernel version 2.6.19-1.2895.fc6
>>
>> familiar symptoms huh?
>>
>> note, I did not have such problem using FC4 on this machine for the 
>> whole year.
>>
>> because of kernel panic, I assume I can't catch any output in the log 
>> files about the cause, can I?
>>
>> -- regards, Oleksandr Korneta /The nice thing about standards is that 
>> there are so many to choose from./
> I attempted to reproduce the problem earlier today by going through the 
> same set of actions that preceded the lock-up I described earlier.  The 
> system is still running normally at this time.  I'll give it a little 
> bit longer (overnight) and see how it's doing tomorrow.
> 
> My experience with the laptop is pretty much as you described: I used it 
> extensively running FC4 with no problems.  This is the first "random 
> crash" since installing FC6.  I am running ndiswrapper with the Windows 
> driver for my Broadcomm wireless NIC so the system is "tainted."  

I am also using ndiswrapper with 64bit windows driver. I had really bad 
experience with bcm43xx (regular network drops, resolvable by restart of 
the system only).

> The 
> only way I can use the bcm43xx wireless drives is if I disable security 
> on my AP which I'm not going to do.

fortunately, I am not using that security, because I do not believe 
secure wifi. All I have is just filtering by mac-address to prevent 
non-authorized use by my neighbors. I have another wired machine for 
secure activity.

-- 
regards,
Oleksandr Korneta

/The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from./