The Grumpy Editor's Guide to distributions for laptops

The Grumpy Editor's Guide to distributions for laptops

Posted Jun 3, 2008 22:10 UTC (Tue) by Los__D (subscriber, #15263)
Parent article: The Grumpy Editor's Guide to distributions for laptops

How many times did you try suspend and hibernate?

I'm running Hardy at the moment, and while suspend works, it isn't... entirely stable (on a Dell D620 with an nVidia, shhhhh, please don't kill me card).

Most of the times, there's no problems, but once in a while, wireless wont work until "modprobe -r iwl3945; modprobe iwl3945", (seldomly, NetworkManager also needs to be restarted), sometimes a USB mouse will be dead after resume, and "modprobe -r usbhid" will hang making the mouse unavailable until reboot.

Lately, sometimes the laptop refuses to suspend, which I of course tend to only find out AFTER I take it out of my bag an hour later, with a flat battery, or the computer making an overheat-imminent protection shutdown (fantastic, lifesaving feature, btw)

I've had dead sound on resume in the beginning, but that particular problem seems to have disappeared recently.

Has anyone else had similar experiences?

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I have a Thinkpad X31 (type 2672-CM3), but with the wireless upgraded to an Intel ipw2200.

I'm running Debian etch, and use ACPI suspend/resume daily. Regrettably, it's not as stable as
it could be. I have experienced the wireless-flaky-on-resume problem, fixable with an
rmmod/modprobe cycle. However, the main problem is that the system refuses to resume about 1
time in 10.

I recently updated to a Lenny kernel (linux-image-2.6.24-1-686_2.6.24-4_i386.deb) and things
are perhaps a little more stable -- I've had about 30 suspend/resume cycles before each
lockup.

Counting the positives, I've had none of the reported problems on the suspend side, and no
trouble with backlights, battery drain or graphics state (graphics chip on this machine is an
ATI Radeon Mobility M6 LY).

thinkwiki.org have a number of detailed pages that go into the ins and outs for Thinkpads...