From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?UTF-8?B?UmHDumwgU8OhbmNoZXogU2lsZXM=?= Subject: Re: System hard lock when closing lid(2nd try) Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2007 14:20:56 +0200 Message-ID: References: <200710261741.50531.rasasi78@gmail.com> <1193483848.7171.3.camel@pcjc2lap> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:52877 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752440AbXJ0MVN (ORCPT ); Sat, 27 Oct 2007 08:21:13 -0400 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1Ilkf1-00035k-SC for linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org; Sat, 27 Oct 2007 12:21:03 +0000 Received: from 213.pool85-53-181.dynamic.orange.es ([85.53.181.213]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 27 Oct 2007 12:21:03 +0000 Received: from rasasi78 by 213.pool85-53-181.dynamic.orange.es with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 27 Oct 2007 12:21:03 +0000 Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org Hello: Peter Clifton wrote: >=20 > On Fri, 2007-10-26 at 17:41 +0200, Ra=C3=BAl S=C3=A1nchez Siles wrote= : >> =C2=A0 Hello All: >>=20 >> =C2=A0 Some time ago(2007/09/17) I wrote this e-mail: >>=20 >> Ra=C3=BAl S=C3=A1nchez Siles wrote: >>=20 >> > =C2=A0 Hello all: >> >=20 >> > =C2=A0 I've searched for a more user related ML, but this is the c= losest >> > =C2=A0 I've >> > found. I own a Dell inspiron 510m laptop which include the HW list= ed at >> > [1] >> >=20 > > =C2=A0 As you can see there the graphics card is an intel 855GM. Th= e newer xorg > > intel driver tries to save power by disabling one of the video outp= ut > > pipes of the card, the one that could drive an external VGA monitor= =2E As a > > result, someone told me that the system enters in SMM (System Manag= ement > > Mode), leaves the system in such a state that the system ends up lo= cking > > totally: no ssh connection or sys-rq combination works, just hard p= ower > > off. More details at https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3D= 11432 >>=20 >> =C2=A0 The lid problem stills exist on a current Xorg version, even = with intel >> video driver git version. I'm not surprised since I suspect heavily = on a >> BIOS problem. I'm coming back with more attached info: >=20 =C2=A0 Thanks a lot for your reply, Peter. :) > There is probably a BIOS issue (from reports I've seen on this issue)= , > however the git version of the xserver-xorg-video-intel driver does n= ot > address a couple of crashes with 855 hardware which are caused by the= X > driver writing registers in the card. >=20 > http://www2.eng.cam.ac.uk/~pcjc2/ubuntu/xserver-xorg-video-intel_2.1.1-= 0ubuntu10~pcjc2.2.diff.gz >=20 > Shows the diff applied to a (yet unreleased) Ubuntu package for the > drivers. (Applies against 2.1.1 release version). You should be able = to > find the patches in the debian/patches/ dir which the diff creates. >=20 I've been following this thread on the xorg-devel ML, and I have those patches queued for testing ;) > It might be worth looking at these, and revisiting the BIOS issue if = (as > is unfortunately likely) if there remains an issue. >=20 If you pay attention to https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3D= 11432 I had published there a patch (comment #23) there that has been happily working for me since I post it (yet it works). But what it does is ugly= and has drawbacks as explained there so I still consider it a workaround an= d not a final solution. That's the reason I came here, to check out wether the Linux kernel cou= ld address the issue. Regards, =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0Ra=C3=BAl S=C3=A1nchez Siles ----->Proud Debian user<----- Linux registered user #416098 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" i= n the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html