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SubjectRe: APM realy sucks on 2.6.x

Denis Vlasenko wrote:

>On Saturday 05 June 2004 20:18, Sebastian Kloska wrote:
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>
>> Thanks for the patch
>>
>> Unfortunately that didn't do the trick. It does not even suspend
>> sometimes when hitting the suspend button. This is very strange.
>> It reproducible does not resume the second time. Seems like
>> the system has been left in an unstable state after the first
>> suspend/resume cycle. I'm definitely not the born hardware/BIOS
>> programmer although I have been involved in graphic device
>> programming (a pain) but in this this case which is a real pain I
>> would be willing to at least help by further debugging the issue.
>> Kernel 2.4.x proved that the BIOS can be talked into properly
>> interacting with linux. So it's at least not totally brain dead.
>>
>> One might argue that the hardware is already a little bit out dated
>> but I really do not have the resources to buy a new
>> laptop every year and it also represents some kind of masochistic
>> challenge to get this thing going. But I really do not know how
>> to debug the stuff or where to look.
>>
>> Any hints how to proceed would be highly appreciated
>>
>>
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>Well, typically I pepper source with printks, rebuild kernel,
>reboot, set loglevel to max, watch the log, crash, repeat.
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>
Realy was afraid you say something like this. Now I'll follow
Michael Clarks recommentation of ripping down the kernel
to minimal functionality and add drivers/moduls until I hit
the 'bad' one. ... keep you informed

>--
>vda
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