Michael Eschweiler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Hallo,
> The guys at bugzilla who care and control the bug #230668 (Suspend to disk 
> only works once if ehci_hcd is loaded) asked me to try the s2disk on OSS 10.3 
> Alpha in order to find out if s2disk with the now kernel works correctly -  
> it does, but I stumbled over some other things, which seem to work not that 
> correct. As I am a user with very little programming experience I 
> don't know which of this things are worth to be reported to bugzilla. 

Thanks for testing!

> Therefore I would like to comment them here:
> 1. As I didn't want to corrupt my working installation I thought it would be 
> a 
> good idea to install grub on an USB-stick. The setup told the it was unable 
> to install grub on the stick, nevertheless later I found all the files which 
> normally will be copied to /boot on the stick. 

Strange - could you give some more details and report a bug?

> 2. In the fstab the mountpoint for the root-directory and the swap-directory 
> are created as
> /dev/by-id/scsi-SATA_FUJITSU_MHVxxxx-partX            /
> /dev/by-id/scsi-SATA_FUJITSU_MHVxxxx-partY            swap
> on the other side one has to use /dev/sdaX in order to tell the system which 
> partition it has to use for s2disk. I suppose if the complete installation 
> runs correctly, this is written correctly in the menu.lst. But as I had to do 
> it manually it was a little bit confusing that the system doesn't use 
> anymore the hdxY-notation and to find the difference between fstab 
> and menu.lst.

That should work.  Read my announcements about the Alphas, we indeed
switched to /dev/sda with the new libata drivers.

> 3. On OSS 10.0 the installation-routine recognized the fact that the 
> (video)BIOS of the Acer TM 661 is defective and lacking the correct 
> resolution information. It automatically installed 855resolution from Alain 
> Poirier. OSS 10.2 didn't do that nor does it 10.3.

Please file a bugreport.

> 4. The setup for the x-server writes an xorg.conf-file with the 
> driver 'intel'. This driver doesn't work with the Acer Travelmate 661. I had 
> to change the driver to i810. This is a little bit annoying - for a newbie it 
> will be desastrous. By the way: s2ram still doesn't work correctly (see 
> bugzilla #230123).


Please file a bugreport as well.

> Best regards
> Michael
> P.S.: The hardware: 
> Intel Centrino Mainboard 1400 MHz / RAM 764 MB
> on board Intel Graphic 855 GM

Thanks,
Andreas
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