On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 11:11:45PM +0200, Peter Pentchev wrote: > Hi, > > First of all, apologies if this turns out to be a common question; > I've done a bit of searching on the Internet in the past several > months, and I didn't come across something that could really address > my problem, but it is very, very much possible that I've missed > something obvious. > > I'm writing this on an HP 6735b laptop that, for the past several > months has been freezing each and every time I either plug or > unplug the power cord. It also freezes if I leave it for more than > twenty or thirty or so minutes *in a text console* - that started > happening after I switched to KMS for the ATI Radeon card; it used > to freeze in X, too, but at some point it just stopped - now I only > leave it in X when I walk away from it for a while. > > Still, the plug/unplug problem has been constant for the last several > months - utterly reproducible, each and every time, always in Debian, > never in Windows 7. Unfortunately, I cannot give you an exact date > for when it started - I guess the first couple of times I thought this > was something intermittent or something accidental, and by the time I > realized it was constant, I'd lost track of time.
Just for the record, this has now been resolved somehow; I think the turning point was the 2.6.38 kernel migrating to testing. G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev r...@ringlet.net r...@freebsd.org pe...@packetscale.com PGP key: http://people.FreeBSD.org/~roam/roam.key.asc Key fingerprint FDBA FD79 C26F 3C51 C95E DF9E ED18 B68D 1619 4553 This sentence is false.
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