[ltp] ThinkPad 770 suspend/shutdown at random

[Nicolai Nielsen]

>After about 5 minutes since I
>booted, while I was doing the package selection, it just suspended for no
>reason.  I woke it up and resumed the package selection and about 10 
minutes
>later it just shut off suddenly while SuSE was installing! I tried the
>install again, but this time after about 45 seconds, it suspended again.
>With every attempt  made to wake it up, it would just show the screen for 
a
>second then go back to suspend.

I had a similar problem with my 600E and it turned out to be nothing but 
the detect-when-the-lid-is-closed-switch<tm> that was broken.

You can test it by turning off the suspend-when-lid-is-closed<tm> function 
of the thinkpad utilities (don't know it it can be done from PS2.EXE).


Med venlig hilsen / Regards,
_____________________________________________________________________________
Nicolai Dufva Nielsen  -  "The ships hung in the sky in much the same way 
that bricks wouldn't"
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