From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751466AbVIVKcH (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Sep 2005 06:32:07 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751470AbVIVKcH (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Sep 2005 06:32:07 -0400 Received: from atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz ([195.113.31.123]:59817 "EHLO atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751466AbVIVKcF (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Sep 2005 06:32:05 -0400 Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 22:10:13 +0200 From: Pavel Machek To: Mike Mohr Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Reboot & ACPI suspend Laptop display initialization Message-ID: <20050920201012.GA467@openzaurus.ucw.cz> References: <4746469c0509161157bc762bc@mail.gmail.com> <20050916201457.GA29516@ellpspace.math.ualberta.ca> <4746469c05091622163e81dbea@mail.gmail.com> <20050919121622.GA2317@elf.ucw.cz> <4746469c05091914071b3927f@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4746469c05091914071b3927f@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi! Don't top-post. > Hmm. It seems unlikely to me that Toshiba will bother fixing a bug > like this (even as serious as this one is) for a 3-yr-old laptop on my > request. I checked, and I already have the latest BIOS released by > them on 9-24-2002. The fact that they let a bug as serious as this > through their QA really shocks me, esp. since my wife works for Actually I'm not surprised. Embedded controller locked up because Linux did something unexpected. That's still hardware problem, but quite tricky to catch. You can still try to find "what us it that upsets EC", and work around it in Linux. printk/mdelay is your friend. Pavel -- 64 bytes from 195.113.31.123: icmp_seq=28 ttl=51 time=448769.1 ms