[ltp] Thinkpad 600e and powermanagement

[David]

Well Wes I am sorry about that. In the meantime I attended a seminar and 
won a copy of Novell/
Suse 10.0. I thought I would go ahead and do the upgrade while my 9.3 
install was still pretty new. I had just completed the install after 
losing a harddrive.(that is when my powermanagement problem popped up)  
This was a disaster. Not only did I lose my sound, but I lost my 
wireless as well.  I have been in contact with Novell and was assured it 
was a buggy kernel and if I did a security update the problem would be 
fixed. The trouble is my pad does not have a wired NIC and without 
wireless I am unable to do an update.  I have emailed asking for a link 
so I can download the update using a different computer but have not 
heard from them yet.

Anyway I had done the install with ACPI disabled. I was trying to use 
APM. I was using SuSE 9.3 with Kernel 2.6.11.  I wonder if disabling 
ACPI during install may have been part of my problem. I had done the 
install that I had just lost with my hard drive over a year ago and I 
don't remember doing that install the same way. Just can't remember. 
That installation worked well. So for now I guess I will wait for a 
response from Novell and may have to repost when those issues are 
resolved. 

Do you have any thoughts on how I should approach the powermanagement 
when my other problems are resolved?

David

wes schreiner wrote:

> David wrote:
>
>> I have an issue with my TP 600e and need some help. I have googled 
>> extensivly, that is how I found this list in fact. I am using SuSE 
>> 9.3. This has to do with power management. When the laptop is using 
>> AC and goes into standby mode the lcd goes black and will not return 
>> without intervention. I have to unplug the AC and use Fn-F12 to put 
>> in hibernation or I can use Fn-F4 for the suspend mode and bring it 
>> back and the lcd comes back up with the rest of the system. If I go 
>> to the Kpowersave icon in the tray an use it to put it in suspend2ram 
>> mode things work fine on AC or DC. Goes down and comes back including 
>> the monitor with out any problem at all. Using DC everything works as 
>> expected also. I have found several instances of this using google 
>> but have not found a solution that works for me. It seems when I use 
>> the Fn-F3 or Fn-F4 the computer goes into a standby mode instead of a 
>> suspend2ram. I would like it to never go down while running on AC as 
>> I often leave things compiling and many times that takes over an 
>> hour. I have a dos partition for the hfile and also to hold my 
>> PS2.EXE stuff. I have set everything up with PS2 and while in the dos 
>> mode there is no problem. The pad will suspend. The monitor will 
>> still stay black on resume. Only when I have booted linux does the 
>> monitor shutdown during a suspend. I have tried with DPMS on and off 
>> and that does not seem to have an effect either way. Which should be 
>> the correct way. on or off? I have used acpi_sleep=s3_bios to try and 
>> fix this.
>>
>> Why would my pad go into standby mode and not suspend to ram when 
>> using the Fn keys while on AC under linux?
>> How can I keep the monitor from shutting down and not coming back?
>> Does anyone know if the command that Kpowersave uses to suspend2ram?
>> Could I map the Fn combination to that command?
>>
>> There may be something I am not doing to set things up with PS2 
>> properly.
>> I hope I have made some sense here. I sometimes have trouble 
>> explaining what my problem is.
>>
>> Thank's
>> David
>
>
>
> Hi David,
>
> You have explained the problems you are seeing but not your 
> configuration.  Are you trying to use ACPI for power management?  I 
> have a 600E set to use APM and I don't have any of your problems.  
> Suspend works, but it is APM's suspend, not Linux  ACPI suspend2ram.  
> Fn-F4 works fine, as does hibernation with Fn-F12.  Frankly I don't 
> see any reason to try to get ACPI working on the 600E since I am using 
> a 2.4.x kernel.  APM does everything I want.
>
> If your goal is to use your 600E with ACPI then I can't be of any 
> help, but I can give details on a 600E set up to use APM.
> wes