Re: Toshiba Satellite P10 + ati-drivers (fglrx)

[Pavel Machek <pavel-AlSwsSmVLrQ@public.gmane.org>]

Hi!

> New weird error.  This may also be harmless though.  Just first a few
> notes, I'm back onto 2.6.14.3 kernel (fglrx doesn't work with 2.6.15-rc?
> - it just crashes the whole system), and I really need that.
> 
> With fglrx I can suspend to disk and resume.  However, I can't
> suspend-to-ram.  Well, suspend works and it comes back up fine but as
> soon as I switch back to X it hard-crashes the machine.  Now, I'm
> currently between resume and switching to X, and the last few lines from
> dmesg looks as follows:
> 
> Restarting tasks... done
>     ACPI-0284: *** Error: Region EmbeddedController(3) has no handler
>     ACPI-0508: *** Error: Method execution failed [\_SB_.EPWR.PCLK]
> (Node c14d3200), AE_NOT_EXIST
>     ACPI-0508: *** Error: Method execution failed
> [\_SB_.CPI0.LPC0.EC0_._Q1E] (Node c14ceee0), AE_NOT_EXIST

...something wrong with embedded controller... here fixed DSDT *might*
help.

> Now I have a very weird feeling down in my gut that I did not see this
> before and it's probably due to the fglrx module in my kernel.  And
> interrupt 11, btw, is for the screen (it gets shown now in
> /proc/interrupts after I restored most of my kernel).
> 
> Now, initially when I switch back to X I get the correct image on the
> bottom third of the screen with the top two thirds seemingly corrupted.
>  This is pretty normal and is identical to what I normally see when
> switching between consoles and X.  This lasts for about half a second
> before it freezes up and causes a hard-lock.  Normally the screen just
> resets itself at the time it now locks up.

I'm sorry, there's no way we can help you with fglrx. I'm glad at
least s-t-disk works.
								Pavel
-- 
Thanks, Sharp!


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