On Wed, 1 Feb 2006, Michael Perry wrote: > I'm wondering if anyone running a Dell Inspiron 4100, debian kernel > sources 2.6.15, with apm compiled in has seen a periodic problem with APM > suspends where the numlock and screenlock lights just blink on and off > repeatedly and the resume does not work. I looked at the number of times > this happens and its about 2 times out of every 30 suspends. I hardly > ever reboot the laptop since APM has worked so flawlessly for me and this > is not bad; but it causes me a bit of desire to find out if others > experience similar things with a 4100 and APM suspends.
Blinking lock leds mean the kernel has panicked. I think APM still works on my Inspiron 4000, but I haven't checked it in a while... Perhaps, if you can be bothered, hook up a serial console and see what the panic is about. You should be able to google for "serial console panic" Or get out of X (killing xdm/kdm/gdm), and then try to cause the panic again -- the panic should then be displayed on the screen. -- TimC Smash head on keyboard to continue. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
