[arch-general] kde44beta - Arch needs to disable powerdevil suspend default -> very hard shutdown...

[David C. Rankin]

On 02/03/2010 01:53 PM, Pierre Schmitz wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, 3. Februar 2010 19:02:18 schrieb David C. Rankin:
>>  Any feature that can damage a system (ext4
>> hard shutdown corruption) should be disabled by default thus requiring the
>> user to "pick his poison" rather than having it slipped into his glass.
> 
> Suspend is not broken by itself, it's your BIOS (very likely) or maybe a 
> kernel driver that is broken. So I don't see the point in disabling the 
> feature here. According to your logic we might disabling sound because playing 
> sound might crash systems with broken audio drivers. Or maybee we shsould also 
> disable Kwin composite because it freezes system using broken dirver like my 
> intel. I hope you get the idea. ;-)
> 

I get it,

	Pierre, what do you suggest as the best way to troubleshoot this issue. The
board affected is a MSI K9N2 SLI Platinum with an AMD Phenom(tm) 9850 Quad-Core
Processor. Is this something that should go through tracker, the forums, what??

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