[ltp] Nearing nirvana with a T40P

[mukesh agrawal]

On 29 Jun 2003, Neil Weisenfeld wrote:

> Another related issue here is that I need to switch to a VT before
> suspending or hibernating.  The APM script feature does *not* do it for
> me.  I still have to manually switch, and then upon resume the apm
> script feature will switch back.  But, if I rely on the apmscript
> feature to 'chvt 1', it doesn't work.  I've tried moving the 'chvt' and
> adding a sleep to apmscript, but it hasn't helped.

Is this true even if you use VESA fb? I'm running VESA fb and XFree 4.3
on a T40 with Radeon 9000 (but not FireGL), and "apm --suspend" works
fine.

> Speedstep.  No matter what BIOS settings I play with, if the system
> boots on battery, then CPU frequency is limited to 600Mhz, even if AC is
> restored.  I'm running the cpufreq module, however it still considers
> 600MHz to be the upper limit.  It used to be that the 600MHz limit went
> in to effect, even if I booted on AC and then switched to battery,
> however a recent change to kernel 2.4.21-rc8-ac1 seems to have made it
> that it sticks with whatever it had at boot time.

I use 2.4.21-ac2 and 'echo "1300000 1300000 performance" > /proc/cpufreq".
Seems to work fine.