[ltp] ACPI + A21m Thinkpad

Tom Allison linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Tue, 29 Jul 2003 08:45:03 -0400


Frank Schaeckermann wrote:
> 
> 
> mukesh agrawal mukesh-at-cs.cmu.edu |Linux on ThinkPads| wrote:
> 
>> On Mon, 28 Jul 2003, Tom Allison wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Things that I would expect it to put to sleep (closing the lid, 
>>> hitting the
>>> Fn buttons accordingly) have no effect on the state of this notebook.
>>>
>>> I'm using Suse 8.2 if anyone asks.  But I think that the information 
>>> I need
>>> is much more generic than a specific distribution.
>>
>>
>>
>> IIRC, the linux+acpi website mentions that sleep (suspend-to-ram) will 
>> not
>> work with 2.4 series kernels.
> 
> 
> Well... that may be true if you use ACPI but with APM my T40p goes to 
> sleep very smoothly if I hit Fn-F4!
> 

Exactly!

But SuSE 8.2 doesn't even have apm support in it and from everything I can 
find, the A21 notebook should have nearly complete ACPI support.  But the 
Fn-F4 just stares at me...

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