[ltp] Hibernation in an IBM t40p

[Sergio Vergata]

Hi,

Just go to IBM on the page the is an report about this problem, they fixed
it with one of the numerouse Bios Uppdates and embeddet controller patches
:-)

kepp on updating

cu Sergio


----- Original Message -----
From: "Nicolas Relange" <nicolas@szoup.wh.uni-stuttgart.de>
To: "linux-thinkpad.org" <linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org>
Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2003 3:32 PM
Subject: [ltp] Hibernation in an IBM t40p


> Hi !
>
> I used recently the Hibernation utility given by IBM
(http://www-306.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-4PESMK)
to create an hibernation file on my first partition, which is in FAT32.
>
> The hibernation worked great on Linux ! But there was unluckily a small
> problem. Just after the boot screen, the screen becomes black for almost
> one minute (the del light of the hard disc being on). And then
> everythings works right (lilo and linux/windows). But that gives is
> really slow boot process :(
>
> Does anyone experience the same thing ? Is it normal ? Or do I have to
> update the bios that manages the Hibernation.
>
> Thanks for your answers
>
> NB : I deleted the hibernation file, and everything works like in the
> beginning. I do not have to wait any more, but I lost the use of the
> hibernation.
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> Nicolas Relange
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