new hardware, more problems

[Ric Wheeler]

On 01/24/2012 05:36 AM, Frederic Muller wrote:
> On 01/24/2012 06:16 PM, Greg wrote:
>> On 24/01/2012 5:11 PM, Frederic Muller wrote:
>>> Hi!
>>>
>>> Some may remember I was struggling with my old (but faithful) T60 and
>>> rawhide because of poor performance and increased heat. I have
>>> therefore upgraded my hardware (more CPUs, more RAM) and have hit a
>>> lot of new annoying to critical bugs with rawhide. Not sure what was
>>> the culprit I tried F16 and experienced the same plague (missing
>>> icons, ACPI making the machine hang, screensaver locks-up, etc,).
>>>
>>> So I'd like to know whether it's better to run F16 or rawhide/F17 to
>>> report and try to address those bugs?
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>> Fred
>> did you try Disabling ACPI ?
>
> I had to (BIOS disabling) as I couldn't let me machine go to sleep. But I also 
> have quite a few other problems like missing icons on newly installed apps (I 
> filled a bug for F16) or  missing icons in the notification area, all those 
> which never occurred on my old hardware.
>
> Fred

One thing that drove me nuts with my thinkpad was its trusted computing module. 
The TCM driver polls (sometimes for minutes) which looks like a hang until you 
go into the BIOS and configure it to hide the part completely.

Turning it off made it much more reliable,

Ric