[ltp] Hibernation problem - T23

Wed, 13 Aug 2003 10:22:58 +0200

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Syd Hancock wrote:<br>
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    <pre wrap="">the boot floppy will allow you to create a Hibernation Partition
on your hard drive (must be a primary partition therefore you
need space in your mbr partition table!!!) and sets up the bios
to use that partition to store the hibernation file when you hit
Fn-F12.
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I have a T23 and have used the floppy image from IBM Support site to 
create a large Hibernation file. 

The problem I have is that after hibernation, the display on the 
virtual consoles (e.g. Ctrl-Alt-F1) is corrupted. Is there a 
solution for this or a way to reset the text display? The X-windows 
display on Ctrl-Alt-F7 is not corrupted. 

TIA
Syd Hancock
Norwich UK
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Often with X, you must switch to a text console (Ctrl-Alt-F1) before
suspending/hibernating. This is the situation with T21 and Mandrake 9.0
and I will soon also explore it with a T23 I get tomorrow. 
 
 
During the spring, I worked hard on getting the T21 to
suspend/hibernate correctly. Three things were necessary but then
everything worked fine: 
1. Switch to text console, 
2. eject/unload pcmcia card (wlan, should not be necessary on the T23)
when hibernating (some people say this is a bug in the system), 
3. change sound driver from alsa to OSS (driver supplied with kernel).
It is works with alsa if you log out and restart the sound deamon as
part of the wake-up procedure, but if logged into kde, the panel
crashes otherwise. 
 
I made two short commands for this and put on the desktop for easy
clicking (do not use the F-keys). 
suspend = chvt 1;apm -s 
hibernate = cardctl suspend;chvt 1;tpctl -H 
 
The last command use the tpctl utilities to be installed. 
 
Sleep&nbsp; (F3) works OK. I think the only thing it does is to turn off the
back-light and stop the HD. 
 
 
 
Regards,&nbsp;&nbsp; Ted 
 
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