[ltp] Re: Suspending with AC & PC Cards

[Alan Shutko]

"Burt Silverman" <burts@us.ibm.com> writes:

> Till Straumann states:
> >As we all know, several TP models (mine is a 600E) refuse
> >to suspend/hibernate if the machine is on AC power AND if
> >there are powered PC-cards in the slots.

> Does yours give the BEEP BOOP sounds? I have one machine that does that,
> and one that does not. I'm not sure if that is because I configured the
> kernels differently. At this point I'm not sure if it's the APMD or PCMCIA
> making the decisions.

It's neither.  It's the BIOS, because APMD is not getting a suspend
event (and suspending with apm -s works fine).

I just upgraded my A20p's bios, and it started doing this.  It's very
annoying... I don't know why this "feature" is there, but I want a way
to turn it off.

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