Testing the beta

[Christoph Bier]

Is this---replying in this thread---the right place to report my
experiences?

Matthew Garrett schrieb am 23.04.2006 16:27:

> So we've got a beta version out there, and it's a fairly short time 
> until the final release. A lot of laptop support code has gone into 
> recent updates, so it would be really good if people could test things 
> thoroughly and let us hammer out the last few bugs.

I found that according to update-manager my system is up to date,
but aptitude dist-upgrade upgrades 70 packages and installs 3
packages additionally.

My problems according to speed and stability described in
http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ubuntu.user/59879 and
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ubuntu.laptop.testing/589 still
exist. But I could isolate them further. I guess it's a matter of
memory. After upgrading to Dapper and playing with conky I
accidently found that system freezes when about 80% of memory usage
is reached. This is reproducible under any circumstances! So I found
a short-term workaround by installing openbox and working only with
one application (mail or browser or editor or image viewer or pdf
viewer ...) what isn't very comfortable. Even Xfce's memory usage is
too much for my tasks. (My Laptop has 256MB RAM)

> Good things to test:
> 
> 1) Does suspend/resume to disk work? To RAM? [...]

Hibernating doesn't work at all (while on AC power, didn't try with
battery). Screen blanks and comes back again; only openbox,
gnome-update-manager and a terminal are running (65MB of memory in
use):

chris at skull:~$ LANG=C sudo /etc/acpi/hibernate.sh
Password:
 * Shutting down ALSA...
      [ ok ]
/etc/acpi/hibernate.sh: line 28: echo: write error: Cannot allocate
memory enabled, not active [unchanged].
/etc/acpi/resume.d/17-video-restore.sh: line 5:
/var/lib/acpi-support/vbestate: No such file or directory
 * Setting up ALSA...
      [ ok ]
FATAL: Module battery is in use.
xscreensaver-command: no screensaver is running on display :0.0

Sleeping works but waking up doesn't. I get a console with "Linu"
(sic!) in yellow color[1]. Nothing else, no reaction on pressing any
key. I have to press the power button for about five seconds then
the laptop is shut down.

Using the sleep script from a terminal doesn't work, so I have to
try it with Gnome (then memory usage is 123MB) and have a look at
the log files. But there is only one message after pressing the
sleep button:

Apr 24 16:55:22 localhost gdm[4361]: Master wird in Ruhezustand
versetzt...

(Translation: Setting master to sleep...)

> 2) Does X get configured correctly? [...]

Yes.

[...]

Best,
  Christoph

[1] Dark but focussed: http://zvisionwelt.de/tmpdownloads/p4241417.jpg
Bright but out of focus: http://zvisionwelt.de/tmpdownloads/p4241419.jpg
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