From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Andrea R." <7252d9@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [2.6.27.7] processor.ko messes up ACPI resume Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2009 10:50:23 +0200 Message-ID: <20090717085023.GB2016@acerrimo> References: <20090711131152.GE2750@acerrimo> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from smtpi4.ngi.it ([88.149.128.34]:39983 "EHLO smtpi4.ngi.it" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S934226AbZGQIuc (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Jul 2009 04:50:32 -0400 Received: from 127.0.0.1 (81-174-3-254.dynamic.ngi.it [81.174.3.254]) by smtpi4.ngi.it (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4DF9A420D1 for ; Fri, 17 Jul 2009 10:50:24 +0200 (CEST) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090711131152.GE2750@acerrimo> Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org Il 11/07/2009 alle 15:11, Andrea R. ha scritto: > Hi all, > > I was having problems resuming my Acer laptop from suspend-to-RAM, where > upon waking up the screen was flashing madly (think detuned TV). This > laptop had no problems waking up using previous kernel releases, the > latest I had tried before 2.6.27 being 2.6.18. > > After long trials, I traced the issue to the "processor.ko" kernel > module: if I unload it - even while the screen is being crazy - all goes > back to normal. > > Problem is, that module is needed to probe the CPU's temperature and - I > think - for clock frequency stepping. > > Does anyone know how do I get to keep it *and* get working resume > functionality? > > I'm using 32-bit Slackware 12.2 at the moment, but the exact same > symptoms were shown by Fedora 11 x86_64. > > My laptop has an AMD Turion64 processor and an ATI Radeon Xpress1100 > graphics card driven by X.Org's "ati" driver. Please write if you need > lspci's output or more detailed info or tests. > > Thanks in advance for your comments. Good thing I thanked in advance... -- ~> cat /etc/*-{version,release}|head -n1 && uname -moprs|fold -sw72 Slackware 12.2.0 Linux 2.6.27.7-crrm i686 AMD Turion(tm) 64 Mobile Technology MK-36 GNU/Linux