[ltp] Suspend, hibernate and the 600E

[wes schreiner]

Charles E Taylor IV wrote:

>On Thu, 04 Dec 2003 14:16:09 +0000 (GMT)
>"Tony Sequeira" <tony@sequeira.com> wrote:
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>>Attempting to get suspend working on a TP 600E, LFS kernel 2.4.23.
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>>I'm concerned however that
>>neither addresses the 'suspend on lid close' ability.
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>Have you made sure that suspend-on-lid-close isn't disabled in the BIOS? 
>On most thinkpads, this function can be enabled/disabled in the BIOS.
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>You'll probably have to use the PS2.EXE utility with a DOS
>boot disk to set that up.  (Maybe a utility like tpctrl can do it?)
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Yes, tpctl can do it, as well as PS2.EXE. Linux APM doesn't deal with 
suspend-on-lid-close because that is purely a BIOS function.

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>>Is there a howto out there somewhere that covers suspend and
>>hibernation (my next project) please.
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>Hope you've got a DOS partition!  If you want BIOS hinernation, you'll
>need a DOS partition and the PS2.EXE utility to create the hibernation
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>(Assuming 600E wotks like a 600 here...)
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Yes, as in most aspects, the 600 and the 600E are identical.

wes