[ltp] Some questions on the T21

[Nigel Metheringham]

A smallish slew of questions... I am aiming to pull all the stuff I
learn into a document so hopefully I'll be able to give some of this
back soon.

In general my T21 is running very nicely now, however here are the
current problems I am hitting - for reference I am running a RH71
install with ximian stuff on top.

  1. Booting on battery gives a system that works, other than
     X mouse focus stuff goes all to pot.  I have seen comments
     that booting off battery doesn't work, but can't see why
     unless its a case that the kernel bogomips/delay-loop
     figure needs to be the fastest it might hit and so the
     timing is then wonky... any comments?

  2. tp4d (trackpoint daemon) doesn't manage to reset the trackpoint
     status after a suspend/resume - seem to need to reboot for
     this.  Anyone got a solution?  [killing and restarting tp4d
     doesn't fix this either - maybe X stops it?]

  3. tpctl appears unable to enable a serial port that has been
     disabled in the BIOS - it says it does the right thing,
     but the serial port drivers do not find it until its been
     enabled in BIOS through a reboot (I am using modules before
     you ask).

  4. Any good tips for apm etc configuration for power saving configs?
     I have atime updates off, and am looking at spindown on the
     disk.  Howabout losing cron etc whilst on battery?

Regards
	Nigel.
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