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From: Juri Haberland <juri@koschikode.com>
To: david.lombard@mscsoftware.com (\"David N. Lombard\")
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org;, haberland@altus.de
Subject: Re: 2.4.5-ac13, APM, and Dell Inspiron 8000
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You wrote:
> Juri Haberland wrote:
>> 
>> Ok, I just tried that and my i8000 locked up as well. No problems with
>> 2.4.5 as well. I have also another problem:
>> Running with -ac13 it doesn't poweroff properly - but it did running
>> 2.4.5. Sometimes it just stops where it should poweroff and locks hard,
>> sometimes it blanks the display before locking up hard.
> 
> The Dell i5000e crashes when switching between mains and battery when
> the disk is active, so you might try to plug/unplug with the system
> quiet.
> 
> If this works, you'll be in a *little* better spot.
> 
> As for hanging, you might try suspending it (i.e., close the display)
> and opening it back up.  This works for the i5000e; it also clears the
> display that sometimes goes *nuts* when switching video modes.  This
> last behavior has only surfaced with the latest A06 BIOS.

Hi,
I didn't have all these problems when running 2.4.5 or 2.4.6-pre2.
So there is something odd in Alan's tree (I assume).

Juri

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Juri Haberland  <juri@koschikode.com>