[ltp] Suspend, hibernate and the 600E

S. Anthony Sequeira linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Thu, 04 Dec 2003 21:36:14 +0000


On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 18:01, Charles E Taylor IV wrote:
> On Thu, 04 Dec 2003 16:24:01 +0000 (GMT)
> "Tony Sequeira" <tony@sequeira.com> wrote:
> 
> [Thinkpad 600E]
> 
> > Aha, that's why I don't remember it.  Perhaps tpctl has something to
> > control this.
> 
> I think it can handle the lid (from my brief reading about it), but if
> you're going to have to get PS2.EXE anyway, it might oot be worth the
> trouble.
> 
> > Is this 'swsusp' (sp) that I came across in my googling?
> 
> Yes.  I haven't tried it yet - mainly becase I don't run a vanilla kernel
> on the only machine I have where BIOS hibernation doesn't work (it runs
> Red Hat 9).
> 
> > This could be an interesting project, but as I still have a licence and
> > disks for MSDOS 6.2 (I think - Win 3.1), I'll use that.  maybe when
> > (if) I get some time?
> 
> That'll work fine, as will a bootable disk made using "format a: /s" under
> Windows 95.
> 
> > I *did* have a battle with the sound, and was pretty glad to get it
> > working.  The mwave modem is another future project.
> 
> Sound: 
> http://www-306.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/MIGR-4BP6Q6.html
> (a bit old, but still contains useful information)
> 
> Modem:
> http://www-124.ibm.com/acpmodem/

Thanks, I'll try and get some time to myself this weekend to get at
least some of this sorted.
-- 
Tony