[phboerker]

I have had this laptop (Samsung X20 with integrated gfx) for some years now and there never was any problem with it. I could do an infinite number of suspend-to-hdd cycles without any problem.

Alas the laptop has become very unreliable since I updated to opensuse 11.1 (or perhaps since an online update after the update to 11.1, I don't know). If I let the laptop idle for some time I can be sure to find it frozen in an unrecoverable state half an hour later. No magic sysrq work, no nothing. When I make the computer suspend to harddisk, it will wake up okay but the CPU is always at 100% even though there is no process demanding full CPU power. The fan starts to spin and the computer seems to be even less reliable than after a clean reboot. In addition to this I cannot send the laptop to a second suspend-to-hdd, this works only once after a clean restart.

In twelve years of linux usage on laptops I have never had that severe problems. In fact the past years were such that I actually have given up looking into low-level stuff of my linux installations a long time ago (I believe the last time I used vi on some config files or compiled a kernel was at the time of the 2.2 kernel series...) as everything used to work out of the box. Now I have no idea where to start. I have reinstalled the original 11.1 kernel but this hasn't changed anything.

I appreciate any help.