[ltp] [SOLVED]T40 ACPI and radeon. Thank you.

[Pete Toscano]

Bob Alexander wrote:
> After having approx 4800mW/h in sleep to RAM mode, now on 2.6.11-rc2 
> with quite a few patches I have went down to only 395mW/h when measured 
> off the expansion unit durinf a 40 min experiment.
> 
> My model is a 2373-92G with a Radeon 9000 (M9) and a 1400x1050 lcd.

Bob,

I've been following your plight over the past few days and trying to get 
similar stuff working on my 2373-94U (sounds very similar to yours) 
running FC3.  My latest attempt has been trying Volker's kernel, but:

1. The power button's too sensitive to revive to running from ACPI 
suspend-to-RAM.  Instead, it revives to "shutdown."

2. SWSUP2 seems to hang on resume at "copying original kernel back."  I 
haven't tried testing with "init=/bin/sh" but I have gone to single-user 
mode and removed all the modules I could.  (There were three that 
couldn't be unloaded.)

I'd like to get ACPI running, but, really, I just want some ability to 
close the lid and have the machine go into a _very_low_ power mode -- if 
not go off -- and be able to continue from where I was when I open it 
back up.  Until the last few FC3 kernels, I've been working fine with 
APM, but that seems to have broken recently.  I can do APM resume with 
2.6.10-ac10, but then the keyboard goes all wonky.  (Although I'm not 
really looking for a fix to this right now.)

So... Care to share what you needed to get things working?

Thanks,
pete