[ltp] TP560X questions

[Tod Harter]

On Monday 24 December 2001 14:24, you wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Had a few queries regarding linux on my thinkpad 560X. I'd be gald for
> any help/pointers..
>
> (1) The machine hangs everytime it resumes from a suspend-to-disk or
> hibernation. How do I avoid this ? I read somewhere that I need to
> downgrade my BIOS. Can this be avoided ?
> I run RedHat 7.1 kernel 2.4.2-2

There are a number of settings in the kernel for dealing with various BIOS 
bugs and hitches relating to APM and suspend/resume stuff. Its tedious, but 
pretty much the only way to debug this sort of thing is either find someone 
thats worked out the bugs in pretty much exactly your setup already, or 
systematically test different kernel options by rebuilding kernels with 
various different ones.
>
> (2) I have a hibernation file created on the FAT partition. Is it
> possible to get rid of the FAT partition completely and have the
> hibernation file on an ext2 partition ?

No. IBM's Thinkpad BIOS only understand FAT (I guess thats understandable). 
The bios has to be able to figure out the filesystem so it can recover the 
hibernation file, thus, sadly, you can't get away from that FAT partition...

>
> TIA,
> Pradeep
>
>
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