F8: Thinkpad T61 wakes up at random after hibernating

[Globe Trotter]

> > > You may have to worry about "quirks":
> > > http://people.freedesktop.org/~hughsient/quirk/quirk-suspend-index.html
> > > > 
> > > > But my reference is to pm-hibernate. I tried it three times this
> morning,
> > > and
> > > > it went down fine twice. But woke up a second later the third time. I
> tried
> > > > shutting down firefox the first times, and left it on at
> > > www.washingtonpost.com
> > > > the third time. It may be firefox, it may be java, but the problem is
> so
> > > random
> > > > (Bernoulli distributed with p > 0.75) that it is hard to tell.
> > > 
> > > The takeaway from the BZ ticket ref above is that this may not be a
> > > question of applications running, but rather drivers.  Some similar fix
> > > to the one in BZ might help you.
> > 
> > Thanks, and you are probably right. Btw, I do not have an nvidia, but an
> Intel 
> > GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller. 
> 
> That's OK.  The quirks thing won't help you with proprietary drivers
> anyway.  And the end result of the analysis was that graphics drivers
> weren't the issue anyway, USB drivers were.
> 
> > 
> > It does seem strange that this entire crop of wake-up-at-random cropped up
> only
> > after upgrades to 2.6.24.
> 
> New features in drivers can have that effect.  See many discussions in
> the archives about the kernel development model and the risk that things
> occasionally stop working.

Thanks very much! I will submit to BZ then. Trouble is I don't quite know what
to submit with it in terms of diagnostic information, but I guess they will
ask....

Best,
Trotter


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