> > You may have to worry about "quirks":
> >
http://people.freedesktop.org/~hughsient/quirk/quirk-suspend-index.html
> > >
> > > But my reference is to pm-hibernate. I tried it three times this
morning,
> > and
> > > it went down fine twice. But woke up a second later the third time. I
tried
> > > shutting down firefox the first times, and left it on at
> >
www.washingtonpost.com
> > > the third time. It may be firefox, it may be java, but the problem is
so
> > random
> > > (Bernoulli distributed with p > 0.75) that it is hard to tell.
> >
> > The takeaway from the BZ ticket ref above is that this may not be a
> > question of applications running, but rather drivers. Some similar fix
> > to the one in BZ might help you.
>
> Thanks, and you are probably right. Btw, I do not have an nvidia, but an
Intel
> GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller.
That's OK. The quirks thing won't help you with proprietary drivers
anyway. And the end result of the analysis was that graphics drivers
weren't the issue anyway, USB drivers were.
>
> It does seem strange that this entire crop of wake-up-at-random cropped up
only
> after upgrades to 2.6.24.
New features in drivers can have that effect. See many discussions in
the archives about the kernel development model and the risk that things
occasionally stop working.
Thanks very much! I will submit to BZ then. Trouble is I don't quite know what
to submit with it in terms of diagnostic information, but I guess they will
ask....
Best,
Trotter
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