Oh darn! No sooner than I say the hal quirk fixes to
20-video-quirk-pm-ibm.fdi fixed things for my A31p then Mr. Murphy
strikes and I have a blank screen on a resume every once in a while...
(actually, random bit patterns, fairly fine grained or all black I think).
However, a small bit of data.
Errr.. I am not sure whats what any more on this vbetool thing, however,
what I can tell you is that Hardy current as of Oct 20, 2008 works great
on my A31p (system model ID is 2653H5U). I am running the ati radeon
driver (fglrx does not support the FireGL 7800 used in this Thinkpad),
and I run
** Summary changed:
- Intersil Prisim firmware Thinkpad A31p
+ Thinkpad A31p Suspend/Resume failure, and Intersil Prisim firmware
** Description changed:
- Binary package hint: wifi-radar
+ Intersil Firmware Problem:
Looks like older Thinpads like my A31p with Intersil Corporation Prism
1. Changed the name to reflect the main/important topic
(Suspend/Resume) hope that helps and does not cause more confusion...
2. I am running Prisim 2.5 firmware 1.8.4 on my Thinkpad A31p with no
problems so far... As I recall problems reported were throughput related
in congested
, messages, debug, and whatnot FYI.
Hope this helps.
Thomas Jacobson
[0.00] Linux version 2.6.20-13-generic ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version
4.1.2 (Ubuntu 4.1.2-0ubuntu4)) #2 SMP Sun Mar 25 00:21:25 UTC 2007 (Ubuntu
2.6.20-13.21-generic)
[0.00] BIOS-provided physical RAM map
Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: wifi-radar
Looks like older Thinpads like my A31p with Intersil Corporation Prism
2.5 Wavelan chipset (rev 01) will probably need to have the firmware in
their Prism chips updated. I used WinUpdate-0-7-0.exe from Intersil and
the latest firmware, 1.8.4
** Description changed:
Binary package hint: wifi-radar
Looks like older Thinpads like my A31p with Intersil Corporation Prism
2.5 Wavelan chipset (rev 01) will probably need to have the firmware in
their Prism chips updated. I used WinUpdate-0-7-0.exe from Intersil and
- the latest
Folks,
Here is a possible work-around to the Thinkpad blank/garbage screen on
resume problem (vbetool post reset) that seems to work for me, and may
suggest where to look for the actual bug.
Thinkpad A31p running a clean Dapper upgraded to Edgy after spending a
day trying all of the solutions
