[Bug 59695] Re: High frequency of load/unload cycles on some hard disks may shorten lifetime

2008-03-27 Thread pan Proteus
I have been using "ugly workaround" (-B 254) since Hardy Alpha5. Recently - with Beta, I tried hibernation on my laptop. After resuming disk head was ticking again and the Load_Cycle_Count started increasing. I checked and /etc/acpi/resume.d/

[Bug 129910] Re: Blank ttys when using vesafb (vga=xxx)

2008-03-24 Thread pan Proteus
I have been using "un-blacklist-workaround" for some time now (both in Gutsy and Hardy) but after 2.6.24-12 kernel was installed, the workaround stopped working. While booting to 2.6.24-12, system hangs just after usplash has been shown and power-cycling is required. When using nosplash, the syste