Hello,
I have a Fujitsu-Siemens Lifebook E-Series E4010.
I configured this laptop to use Suspend to Disk when closing the lid. Normally
it awakes automatically once I reopen the lid. It also switches on and boots
if I open the lid after a previous halt (to boot from scratch). This is more
than I expected, but does not hurd. I also observed that if I close the lid
after a halt the fan starts for a second and switches of later on.
Yesterday the fan worked continuosely after closing the lid (after a halt
process
which tunred the laptop of) the fan continuousely turned. That's why I reopened
the lid and pressed the power button down until it switched of completely.
Once I opened the lid again the laptop did not start as described above but
I had to press the power button to switch it on. This would be no problem
but I had it to do seweral times (3 or 4 times) to finally get it started.
The next time the halt process worked completely normal but when trying to
switch it on it took me about half an hour to reawake this box. It took me
several useless trys to press the power button. Most time the fan started
for a short moment and the battery light switched on for a short moment.
Sometimes fan and battery light worked but the screen remained dark and there
was no harddisk activity. I had to press the power button down a longer time
until the box switched of again. Finaylly after half an hour I managed to get
it working. But now this happened also after a Suspoend to Disk. I was
not able to switch on the box again yesterday evening. Finally I managed
it this morning.
So I'm keen on your diagnosis of this case. My suspection is that there
is something wrong with the BIOS. My problem is to convince the Service
that not Linux caused the problem - they normally blame Linux for any problem
a computer might have caused - you know it. I have not changed the kernel
(2.6.9 with suspend2 and ipw2100 patch) since half a year so I do not
suspect any problem from this side. On the other hand I continuosely update
the box to the current testing which might have a certain influence.
Any ideas?
The laptop stays close to me here and I will not switch it of for now to
keep access to it.
Is there any chance to update the BIOS perhaps? How would I do that with Linux?
Kind regards
Andreas.
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