[ltp] ACPI on T40

[Alexander Naumann]

I am using the normal swap-partition.
Alex

On Fri, 2004-09-17 at 18:49, anish muttreja wrote:
> This is probably a stupid question but I can't find a clear answer on
> the web or in the archives . Does swsup need a seperate swap partition
> or is it possible to use the same swap area for kernel's swap  and
> swsup .
> 
> In other words I have a T42p with a gb of RAM. Should it have two swap
> partitions if I want swsup ? Also how big does each need to be ?
> 
> Thanks
> Anish
> 
> 
> On Fri, 17 Sep 2004 18:13:19 +0200, Alexander Naumann
> <alexandernaumann@gmx.de> wrote:
> > Ok, let's start.
> > Download the 2.6.8.1-kernel (or a newer one).
> > Also download the newest acpi-Patch from acpi.sourceforge.net.
> > Also download the Software-Suspend-2-Patch.
> > Patch the kernel, activate ACPI (and everything that belongs to ACPI and your laptop).
> > In lilo.conf add append="resume2=swap:/dev/hda9" to your configuration.
> > Reboot.
> > Install ibm_acpi (http://heanet.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/ibm-acpi/ibm-acpi-0.4.tar.gz)
> > To hibernate you only have to start the "hibernate"-script as root.
> > I hope this will help you.
> > You can ask me, if you have further questions.
> > Alex
> > 
> > On Wed, 2004-09-15 at 03:33, Paul Kaplan wrote:
> > > Any chance you could write a setup guide for the rest of us?
> > > Is there something special about 2.6.8.1?
> > > Do you think the setup would also work on an R40?
> > > P
> > >
> > > On Tuesday 14 September 2004 01:24 pm, you wrote:
> > > > What kind of details?
> > > > Alex
> > 
> > 
> > > >
> > > > On Tue, 2004-09-14 at 10:41, Paul Kaplan wrote:
> > > > > Could you give some details?
> > > > > P
> > > > >
> > > > > On Wednesday 01 September 2004 03:54 pm, Alexander Naumann wrote:
> > > > > > Just for the gallery...
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I finally got ACPI working on my T40 without good working suspend to
> > > > > > ram! I am using Xfree86 4.3, Debian, Kernel 2.6.8.1 with latest
> > > > > > acpi-patch and ibm_acpi. For Suspend-2-Disk I am using swsup2, suspend
> > > > > > to ram I don't use right now because it still consumes too much power
> > > > > > for me. But it works (Fn+F4). Screen blanking works with the
> > > > > > radeontool.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Alex
> > 
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> 
> 
> 
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> Electrical Engineering    ~        Princeton University
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