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

[David A. Desrosiers]

> But as you don't seem to want suspend to disk without supernatural 
> disk write times, I suggest you do as you've been saying, and stick 
> with suspend to ram, and plenteous reboots.

	No no, you've missed my two choices here. Either I: 

	a. Use acpi, swsusp2, and risk bricking my laptop again, 
	   forcing a backup battery removal and/or 45-second boot 
	   times, with STILL no function of my UltraBay or DockII 
	   peripherals. Since I can't natively change the UltraBay 
	   runtime, nor access the DockII, I have to cold-boot anyway.

	Or...

	b.) Use apm, suspend to RAM, and boot cold to change my 
	    UltraBay and access DockII peripherals.

	That's what I'm up against. ACPI _does not_ work with this 
model of T42p that I have (2373-Q1U), or there is something in the 
latest-and-greatest bios or EC revision that ACPI doesn't like. Either 
way, ACPI is a no-op for suspending to ram. 

	If swsusp2 can work _with_ apm, and _without_ ACPI, I'd be 
willing to give it a try.


David A. Desrosiers
desrod@gnu-designs.com
http://gnu-designs.com