[ltp] Suspend/resume on X61s laptops?

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Mon, 04 Aug 2008, Theodore Tso wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 04, 2008 at 04:09:46PM -0400, Vincent C Jones wrote:
> > As was reported awhile ago on this list, 2.6.26 broke the S3 hacks for
> > reinitializing the video bios during resume from suspend (search for
> > "Big Real Mode"). Happy to report this is fixed in 2.6.26.1 so my X61
> > finally has suspend/resume, fancy blinking wireless lights, and no
> > longer consumes almost as much energy hibernating as it does suspended.
> 
> Thanks for that info.
> 
> I'm using 2.6.27-rc1 (actually the Linus kernel as of Saturday), and
> it is NOT fixed there; suspend/resume is not working for me.  I'll
> have to look and see which of the patches in 2.6.26.1 might be
> related, and try to figure out why it's not yet in mainline yet.  (I
> thought normally all patches were supposed to be in mainline before
> they go into a stable tree....)

Big Real Mode while calling into the BIOS on resume *is* in mainline.  But
there is plently other stuff that changed in 2.6.27 that could have upset
the thinkpad resume, I suppose.

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