[KLUG Members] IBM T30/SUSE 10.0 Suspend to RAM Problems

[Peter Bart]

On Wed, 2006-11-22 at 00:25 -0500, Peter Bart wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-11-19 at 21:46 -0500, Peter Bart wrote:
> > On Sun, 2006-11-19 at 14:04 -0800, Chester Wisniewski wrote:
> > > You can do a lspci from a shell to determine what those devices are.
> 
> 	Actually dmesg has proved to be most useful. As an update, the main
> suspect right now is a buggy DSDT. From the suseforums, I quote:
> "See any acpi errors or warnings in dmesg? Does your system hang when
> shutting down? Can't suspend to RAM or disk? Computer won't wakeup?
> Battery functions not working? Losing an IRQ? Can't get wireless to work
> even though you are following exact directions? You probably have a
> buggy DSDT thanks to Microsoft. Let's fix it!""If your dmesg contains a
> line that looks like this:
> ACPI: DSDT (v001 GBT AWRDACPI 0x00001000 MSFT 0x0100000c) @ 0x00000000 
> then almost surely you have a buggy DSDT unless your OEM happened to
> have fixed it for you -- MSFT 0x0100000c) @ 0x00000000 means M$ buggy
> compiler to me."
> 	Coincidentally I have "MSFT" all over my dmesg output. Not good but
> very well documented. Hope this helps someone else.
> 
> Regards,

	Okay, I've officially had it. I downloaded opensuse 10.1 32 bit dvd and
burned an iso image last night. Is it a smart thing to do to go with
SUSE after recent events? I don't know, I assume opensuse will be around
in some form for some time. Is it a smart thing to do given my limited
knowledge of Linux? Probably not. I have learned to be a little more
careful with what I do. I am jealous of my Ubuntu install. It performs
flawlessly! I do want to use something other than Ubuntu, not because it
doesn't work but to keep up with things. So I'm back to SUSE because of
my familiarity with it. I have to wonder if all my screwing around with
my first Linux experience has left some indelible marks all over my
system, which manifests itself in all sorts of odd behavior. We'll know
soon enough!
	I do want to thank all of you that offered help and guidance through my
adventures so far. From playing, creating symlinks where they shouldn't
be, deleting stuff from my /etc/fstab file, and so on!

Regards

-- 
Peter Bart <peter at petertheplumber.net>
http://petertheplumber.net