Sunday, July 15, 2007

Suspend works again!

Decided to spend a peaceful Sunday pursuing Feisty's inability to suspend my laptop.

After a dozen reboots and no solution in sight, I decided to install the latest 2.6.22-8 kernel from Gutsy. I'd tested suspend with 2.6.22-6, but that hadn't worked. But with 2.6.22-8, it worked! Kinda. The nv driver doesn't bring up the backlight, so I had to go back to the nvidia driver. But now it works!

Regressions: bcm43xx doesn't really work with my card, and ndiswrapper is not included in 2.6.22-8. Dunno why. The changelog has this cryptic comment "No longer provide ndiswrapper or ivtv modules (l-u-m does)". Unfortunately, I've no idea what l-u-m is!
Attempting to recompile ndiswrapper results in some dependency problems which I'm in no mood to fix (requires linux-headers, but linux-headers requires libc6 2.6, etc.).

Ah well. It's still a couple of months away.

Update: l-u-m is linux-ubuntu-modules, which I found out by following the dependency chain from linux-generic.

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