Re: [Mactel-linux-users] touchpad synaptics pm-suspend

[Justin P. M. <jus...@gm...>]

Jonas Petersson wrote:
> Justin P. Mattock wrote:
>>> [...]
>> s2ram works as expected over here,
>
> Here too most of the time. However, I've noticed something that MAY be 
> a  consistent problem: Every time s2ram has failed for me in the last 
> few months or so (possibly since Jaunty was released) I suspended 
> while running on batteries. The box stops responding while show the 
> black screen with a flashing cursor on top left. This is just 3 or 4 
> times so it could be a coincidence, but I thought I'd mention it anyway.
>
> I'm on a MBP 4,1 with Jaunty, installed as described here: 
> http://www.xms.se/~zap/linux/macbookpro41.html
>
> The touchpad has stopped working a few times (once at boot, one or two 
> times after resume), but rmmod/modprobe of bcm5973 does the trick.
>
>         Best / Jonas
>
Hmm I'm wondering if there should be a bug report
filed for bcm5973 in the case of suspend/resume issues?

I could probably get my hands on a machine that has that hardware,
but first would probably need to make a livecd so things are easy
to test.(or just download the latest ubuntu)

Justin P. Mattock