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

[Eric Van Buggenhaut]

On Sun, Apr 10, 2005 at 09:08:08AM -0400, Brad Langhorst wrote:
> On Sat, 2005-04-09 at 21:52 -0400, David A. Desrosiers wrote:
> > 	At the suggestion of one of my colleagues, I tried moving from 
> > apm (which has never failed me), to acpi (where I've heard nothing but 
> > horror stories). I compiled up an acpi-enabled kernel, added a 'lid' 
> > script in /etc/acpi/events, and ran the following command after 
> > booting to this new kernel: 
> > 
> > 	echo mem > /sys/power/state
> you don't want to do that... 
> instead you should remove some troublesome modules first.
> 
> 
> > 
> > 	After that, my T42p turned into a brick. 
> I'm surprised... when i did what you did (on a t40p) i was unable to
> resume, but a long hold of the power button took care of my trouble.
> 
> 
> I've heard a number of  people say that they have acpi working well on a
> t42p... you might consider comparing your bios and embedded controller
> rev to the list archives.  Also I strongly recommend a very recent
> kernel (i'm using 2.6.11.6 with one small radeon patch to avoid
> excessive power consumption during suspend - which i don't think you'll
> need since you have a different video subsystem)

Any pointer to that patch ?


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Eric VAN BUGGENHAUT
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