[ltp] My sad 600E-2645 story

[Bret Comstock Waldow]

I don't have a 600, and I'm not using ACPI.

Did you recompile the kernel to enable the ACPI power stuff?

Cheers,
Bret

On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 08:52, Per Edin wrote:
>  If anyone has a solution to this, i'd be really happy too, as i
> have a TP 600e 2645-a50 and i want the stuff to work.
> 
> / Per Edin
> 
> (Please excuse the swedish, i'm sending it from w2k)
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> [mailto:linux-thinkpad-admin@linux-thinkpad.org]For Ken Restivo
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> Amne: [ltp] My sad 600E-2645 story
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> So here is my sad story.
> 
> I have a 600E-2645U. It worked OK with Debian Woody and kernel 2.4.18.
> Suspend worked, all the function keys worked, sound worked, etc. Even the
> serial ports after getting advice here on using pcmcia-cs with pnp. It was a
> bit interrupt-starved, but I put the LPT in poll-only mode and got enough
> IRQ's to run two PCMCIA cards.
> 
> Only problem was: it would hang periodically, at least twice a day. Hard,
> total-lock-up, "it's dead, Jim" freezes: with the machine running, CPU fan
> spinning out of control, no keyboard reponse (not even sysreq or
> 3-finger-salute), no network, no serial, a blank screen. Power key did work
> though, and a hard reboot brought everything back. This tended to happen
> when the thing was 1) plugged in, and 2) all done recharging. I suspected
> perhaps a stray interrupt (APCI on unused IRQ9?)... or... who knows?
> 
> I'd upgraded the BIOS to IBM's latest available for this machine, back in
> April or thereabouts. No love. It was really annoying to have this thing
> acting so flaky.
> 
> So, for other reasons, I upgraded to kernel 2.4.21-rc6. This had ACPI, so I
> tried it. Lo and behold, the hangs/lockups went away! However, no sleep, no
> function keys (which means no audio!!) no battery status in ACPI, total
> ugliness.
> 
> So, I'll ask: what kernel cocktail should I try, to get this machine to work
> properly? Meaning: suspend/sleep, power/battery management, all the function
> keys, two PCMCIA slots, the serial and IRDA ports, maybe even the parallel
> port (I can't stop the lp/parport_pc/parport modules from getting
> autoloaded). Since this machine is *so* old, and was so popular, I have to
> believe that it's at least *possible* to get it working right. Comments from
> anyone who has, are appreciated.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
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