Bug 431140 - Laptop HP Compaq 6710b crashes when lid is closed
Summary: Laptop HP Compaq 6710b crashes when lid is closed
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: kernel
Version: 8
Hardware: i686
OS: Linux
low
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Kernel Maintainer List
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2008-01-31 22:55 UTC by Bart van Kuik
Modified: 2009-01-09 05:53 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

Fixed In Version:
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed: 2009-01-09 05:53:39 UTC
Type: ---
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Attachments (Terms of Use)
Kernel dump after closing and opening the lid of a HP Compaq 6710b laptop (1.61 MB, image/png)
2008-02-01 11:16 UTC, Bart van Kuik
no flags Details

Description Bart van Kuik 2008-01-31 22:55:31 UTC
From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.10) Gecko/20071213 Fedora/2.0.0.10-3.fc8 Firefox/2.0.0.10

Description of problem:
I've installed Fedora 8 from a live CD on a laptop, the HP Compaq 6710b.

When the lid is closed and opened, the laptop is crashed. This happens both when running X as well as on the virtual console. When on the virtual console, it displays a kernel dump after opening the lid.

This problem is remedied by running the following command as root:

  echo 1 > /proc/acpi/video/C098/DOS

This line can be added to /etc/rc.d/rc.local to make it permanent.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
kernel-2.6.23.14-107.fc8

How reproducible:
Always


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Wait until laptop is booted
2. Close, then reopen lid


Actual Results:
Observe how screen is redrawn, but laptop does not react to keyboard or mouse.
The Caps Lock LED is also on. The laptop can only be shut down by pressing and holding the power switch.

Expected Results:
On a default install, it should not be necessary for the user to use the workaround mentioned in the description.

Additional info:

Comment 1 Chuck Ebbert 2008-01-31 23:04:39 UTC
Please take a picture of the screen with the dump on it and attach that to this
bug report.

Comment 2 Bart van Kuik 2008-02-01 08:36:13 UTC
I can't reproduce this anymore. The previous value of /proc/acpi/video/C098/DOS
was '3' (without quotes).

When reapplying this setting, the crash still isn't reproducible.

Comment 4 Bart van Kuik 2008-02-01 11:16:13 UTC
Created attachment 293711 [details]
Kernel dump after closing and opening the lid of a HP Compaq 6710b laptop

Comment 5 Bart van Kuik 2008-02-01 11:17:16 UTC
OK, can reproduce again. After rebooting the value of /proc/acpi/video/C098/DOS
is by default set to 0. When going to the virtual console and pressing the lid
button a few times, the following line is printed on the console:

BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 00004005

This can be reliably reproduced with the /proc/acpi/video/C098/DOS setting on 0.
Once, I got a kernel dump (it's attached). This cannot be reliably reproduced.

When the /proc/acpi/video/C098/DOS setting is set to 1, the laptop doesn't crash
and no messages are displayed.



Comment 6 Bug Zapper 2008-11-26 09:39:32 UTC
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Comment 7 Bug Zapper 2009-01-09 05:53:39 UTC
Fedora 8 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2009-01-07. Fedora 8 is 
no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further 
security or bug fix updates. As a result we are closing this bug.

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