[ltp] suspend, T43

Richard Neill linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Fri, 27 Jan 2006 01:58:04 +0000


> Firt: is there a way to search among the archives here? An FAQ?
> I may have backed myself into a corner here... I have a T43 with SUSE 10.0 on
> it. I reinstalled without ACPI to fix a performance problem running VMWare 5.5
> with a Windows 2000 guest (needed for development work). That solves my
> performance problem (at the expense of battery life, although not all that
> bad). The problem comes when I try to suspend. The screen corrupts (a bunch of
> multi colored lines and squiggles), and the moon thingie just blinks. The
> machine is locked up and I can only power it off to get out of it. Anyone with
> experience like this have any suggestions (other than reinstalling ACPI).
> 

Try:

sync
chvt 1
killall -STOP X
apm -s
killall -CONT X
chvt 7



Richard