[ltp] Re: ibm-acpi-0.2 swap requirements

[Borislav Deianov]

Hi,

On Sun, 15 Aug 2004 20:25:05 +0000 (UTC) Eben King <eben1@tampabay.rr.com> wrote:
> OK, I got, compiled and installed ibm-acpi-0.2 (after compiling ACPI _in_
> and APM _out_ of the kernel).  I hit Fn-F4 (which is supposed to invoke a
> suspend-to-RAM, but as long as I know what it's going to do, that's OK).  
> It went through its rigamarole, and started dumping stuff to swap.  But
> the kernel panic()ed when it ran out of swap!

It sounds like you are using one of the software suspend
implementations for Linux. The ibm-acpi module is not involved in
this.

Which one? There are three: swsusp, pmdisk and swsusp2. The first two
are integrated with the standard kernel, the third is a separate
patch. You should check which one is compiled into your kernel.

The places to ask for help with this are the linux-kernel mailing list
(see http://www.tux.org/lkml/) or the swsusp2 list (see
http://softwaresuspend.berlios.de/) if you are using that.

As for ibm-acpi, please see the README for the supported features and
how to use them. Which ThinkPad are you running it on?

Regards,
Boris