[ltp] APM suspend hangs on T21 (10% of the time)

[Will McDonald]

For reference, I use an A21m, with 2.4.8 and X4.1, framebuffer console.
In my BIOS I had previously set "suspend" to really hibernate, so when I issue
'apm --suspend' I get the IBM writing-to-disk screen and it powers down. When
I came back, however, my vt's were gone and X restarted.

I could change this back in my BIOS and probably get suspend to work, but I'm
most interested in hibernate. How do other people use hibernation, and do you
have any recommendations?

Thanks,
-will

On Mon, 10 Sep 2001, Markus Alt wrote:
> You use a framebuffer text console, right? This is my guess as I do use
> it and also get this strange diagonal distorted pattern when switching
> from X (i.e. vt07) to a text console (e.g. vt01) with either
> <Ctrl><Alt><F1> or "chvt 1". Sometimes switching back to vt07 crashes my
> X server! :-(
> 
> But I never had problems with suspend/hibernate and resume so far. And I
> use hibernation every day when carrying the machine home from the
> office. Might be slightly different than suspend, but w/ regard to X, it
> shouldn't matter, I think.

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