[ltp] T20 with Debian 2.6.24: Won't return from suspend

Henrique de Moraes Holschuh linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Thu, 11 Sep 2008 00:04:56 -0300


On Wed, 10 Sep 2008, Michael Karcher wrote:
> Probably not. Non-working F4 and F12 keys sound like problems with the
> hotkey mask or bad userspace configuration on handling ACPI events. You
> are using thinkpad-acpi, aren't you? Not using thinkpad-acpi should
> bring back legacy behaviour: Fn-F4 will show up as "sleep button" and
> you can configure userspace to handle this as either suspend-to-ram or
> suspend-to-disk. Of course, the real solution is to fix your userspace
> to not interact badly with thinkpad-acpi.

Well, if it is a T20 (and not, say, a T23).  Try using APM, tpb, and the
older ThinkPad utils suites that do SMAPI instead of ACPI.  It might work a
lot better...

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