Hello: Peter Clifton wrote: > > On Fri, 2007-10-26 at 17:41 +0200, Raúl Sánchez Siles wrote: >> Hello All: >> >> Some time ago(2007/09/17) I wrote this e-mail: >> >> Raúl Sánchez Siles wrote: >> >> > Hello all: >> > >> > I've searched for a more user related ML, but this is the closest >> > I've >> > found. I own a Dell inspiron 510m laptop which include the HW listed at >> > [1] >> > > > As you can see there the graphics card is an intel 855GM. The newer xorg > > intel driver tries to save power by disabling one of the video output > > pipes of the card, the one that could drive an external VGA monitor. As a > > result, someone told me that the system enters in SMM (System Management > > Mode), leaves the system in such a state that the system ends up locking > > totally: no ssh connection or sys-rq combination works, just hard power > > off. More details at https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11432 >> >> 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: > 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 not > address a couple of crashes with 855 hardware which are caused by the X > driver writing registers in the card. > > http://www2.eng.cam.ac.uk/~pcjc2/ubuntu/xserver-xorg-video-intel_2.1.1-0ubuntu10~pcjc2.2.diff.gz > > 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. > 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. > If you pay attention to https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=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 and not a final solution. That's the reason I came here, to check out wether the Linux kernel could address the issue. Regards, Raúl Sánchez Siles ----->Proud Debian user<----- Linux registered user #416098 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
