I own a MSI Wind U100 netbook (specs below) and I have a reproducible problem with kernels 2.6.32.x which did not occur with 2.6.31.x, related possibly to a regression in the ACPI layer. (I have checked that this affects the mainline kernel already.) The system otherwise runs the most recent Debian sid distribution (Sidux) with Xorg-server 1.6.5 on an Intel video chip 945GME; same problem occurs with the sidux kernel 2.6.32.2. It happens randomly (one time out of 3 or 4) that suspend fails, leaving the machine in active state but with video freezed. In other circumstances, the suspend/resume cycle works but after some time (a few minutes at most), the video display starts to blink briefly - this affects both the X session and the console sessions; then blinking becomes more and more frequent and after some time the video display freezes completely; the system then still reacts to keyboard input, however, and can be for instance rebooted by using Ctrl-Alt-F1 Ctrl-Alt-Del from the freezed X session. There may be a connection with the Atheros wireless driver (r8169), since a prior "rmmod r8169" seems to help avoiding immediate freezes. This does not solve the problem either. Jean-Pierre Demailly
Created attachment 24239 [details] lspci + dmesg output
this seems like a graphics problem to me. RE-assign to Yakui.
Hi, Will you please try the following patch and see whether the issue still exists? >http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/intel-gfx/2009-December/005143.html Thanks.
Unfortunately, the above patch from comment #3 does not solve the issue. The incorrect behavior of video display after sleep/resume cycle is unchanged.
Issue seems to be cleared with kernel 2.6.32.5 and Xorg 1.7.4. Maybe version 1.6.5 of Xorg and corresponding drm didn't have good enough hooks with changes introduced in 2.6.32. In any case issue appears much less of a problem now, as few users will probably have bad combination of kernel/Xorg/hardware ...
Ok, thanks for the update.