Laptop install mini-report / FAO Laptop Team

[Lance Lassetter]

You might want to try debugging a custom DSDT and load that.  I know it
sounds daunting but I hear it is quite easy.  Dell Inspiron here has
same problem when waking up from suspend to ram it might go back to
sleep after a few seconds but can still be woken back up, returning to
working X.

Lance

On Thu, 2004-12-02 at 04:10 +0000, Gareth S Osler wrote:
> > > > Disabling agp modules worked here with Dell Inspiron 8200.  If
> > >
> 
> OK, tried this, the Dell Latitude C600 runs an xfree ati driver, so the
> nvagp option does not apply, and disabling kernel support for agpgart
> did not make any difference.  I also tried to disable acpi and enable
> apm, but acpi seems to over-ride no matter what so it seems at this
> point that the Latitude does not support apm.
> 
> To summarise then acpi works but for some reason leaves the screen
> blank, and after waking up from suspend to RAM, about 15 seconds later
> for some reason the notebook flips back into a suspended state, but
> works okay the second time it is woken up.  Disabled all the BIOS power
> management options but still the same thing.  Looks like I'm going to
> have to become an acpi expert to get to the root of this one :)
> 
> While I'm at it few more "comments in the code" aimed from a
> non-technical user level:
> 
> - Am getting to like the gnome two panel scheme (top and desktop
> panels).  It has a concrete feel about it that the Windows start button
> scheme doesn't which has a more 'abstract' than concrete feel.
> - The boot sequence shows an error on attempting to synchronise with a
> time server (caused by being a dialup box and my configuring a time
> server).  A normal user (on whose desktop Ubuntu is going to be
> ubiquitous in the near future :) might be worried by this.
> - I dragged a bookmark onto the desktop from firefox, at which point all
> sorts of strange things happened before I realised the thing to do was
> create a new launcher and copy the link details across - again a
> non-technical user issue.
> 
> Overall though surprisingly few glitches when looking at things at this
> non-technical level.
> 
> 
> GSO
> 
> 
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