[ltp] How to turn your T42p into a brick with ACPI...

[Michael Gaber]

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David A. Desrosiers wrote:
>>anyway... i don't have a dock so i don't know about that - but i 
>>have read some reports of functionality in the archives.  ibm-acpi 
>>also has a dock piece that i suspect will be handy for you...
> 
> 
> 	I'm not trying ibm-acpi until acpi itself works 100%, and 
> right now, I've got a sour taste in my mouth because of acpi 
> temporarily turning the laptop into a $3k piece of glass and plastic. 
> 
> 	If I didn't disassemble it and pull that backup battery, it 
> would have been going back to IBM for a replacement, and I would have 
> been out of my work machine for 3 more weeks.
> 
> 	So what are the steps to get acpi working, _without_ turning 
> the laptop into a dead machine? Compiling in acpi and running some of 
> the test script clearly isn't all that is required. There must be some 
> other preparation and workarounds that I have to script into events to 
> make sure it doesn't just kill the box.
> 
> 
> David A. Desrosiers
> desrod@gnu-designs.com
> http://gnu-designs.com

for suspend you should try the swsusp2 patches and suspending via the
hibernate-script from the same website.

ibm-acpi would be a good idea, because it gives you some more
acpi-events to handle, for example there is an event generated if you
pull out the lever to pull out the ultrabay-drive and one if you insert
it again.

there is also handling-stuff for the docking-station
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