XFree86 4.3.0 hangs at shutdown on Thinkpad T20

[Dan Langille]

On Tue, 23 Mar 2004, Bruce M Simpson wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 04:00:46PM -0500, Dan Langille wrote:
> > On Tue, 23 Mar 2004, stktrc wrote:
> >
> > > XFree 4.3.0 (using savage driver) hangs at shutdown on a Thinkpad T20.
> > > Adding 'Option "ShadowStatus" "on"' for working around a bug in the
> > > chipset as documented in the savage driver manual is not helping
> > > either.
> >
> > I have a ThinkPad T22 running also running XFree86 4.3.0 and the savage
> > driver.  About 50% of the time it freezes on starting X and on leaving X.
> > The machine freezes.  A poower off is the only way to recover.
>
> I haven't experienced the same problem with my T22, which is now being
> depracated in favour of a T40.
>
> Try setting this loader hint and see if it helps, this helped me with
> suspend/resume:-
> 	hw.syscons.sc_no_suspend_vtswitch=1

Thanks.

Here is what I now have in /etc/sysctl.con

# do not sleep when te lid is closed
hw.acpi.lid_switch_state=S0

# do not power up again when turned off
hw.acpi.disable_on_poweroff=0

hw.syscons.sc_no_suspend_vtswitch=1

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