Suspend freezes system on my Thinkpad X41

Sam Leffler sam at errno.com
Thu Aug 31 21:08:02 UTC 2006


Jordan Sissel wrote:
> Subject says it all. Attempting FN+F4 (suspend) or acpiconf -s 3 or -s 4
> all
> cause the system to halt.
> 
> Specs:
> Thinkpad X41
> 6.1-RELEASE GENERIC
> Atheros 5212
> Broadcom BCM5751M
> SATA (ICH6 SATA150)
> 
> Freezes are non-recoverable. Even hardware functions (such as lcd dimming)
> cease. Seems like the system has half suspended, but the LCD is still on
> and
> displaying. Sleep light doesn't blink indicating sleepiness.
> 
> Any help on this would be greatly appreciated :)

"Atheros 5212" is too imprecise; please give mac+phy rev's from
dmesg|grep ath.  Otherwise, try taking ath out of your kernel config to
see if you can suspend+resume.  I've got an outstanding issue with ath
in how suspend+resume is handled--for cardbus cards at least (never seen
it with minipci).

	Sam


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