Update Your Bios (Re: [ltp] T40 hard lock after ~10 minutes on battery)

[Sean Dague]

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On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 08:10:58AM -0500, Sean Dague wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 05:01:14PM -0800, Justin Mason wrote:
> <snip>
> > sounds a little like this bug I'm seeing:
> >=20
> >   https://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=3D6108
> >=20
> > Except in that case, the mouse is dead too.   Does the caps-lock key
> > change the little LED, post-hang?  does it happen on a text console?
> > Also check to see if it happens with laptop-mode inactive, if you're
> > running that. =20
>=20
> Except I don't have madwifi (there is a Cisco mpi 350 using airo.o).  I
> can't remember when caps-lock stops working.
>=20
> Laptop Mode is off (0).

For what it is worth, I decided to see what BIOS updates existed for the
T40, as the brand new harddrive didn't seem like is was a likely culprit.

I had - BIOS: 1.04, Control Program: 1.02

There is now - BIOS: 3.14, Control Program: 3.04

Instructions are here on how to get .img files out of the windows BIOS
installer: http://www.digriz.org.uk/t40p-linux/#bios-update

I burned them to 2 cds, updated Control Program (do this *first* the
instructions are very specific), then the BIOS.

Now running off the battery seems to work fine.  I even just restored from
pmsuspend2 with no issues into X.

As it has only been about 8 hours since I did the update, I won't declare
full victory yet.  However it is looking pretty good.

	-Sean
=20
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Sean Dague                                       Mid-Hudson Valley
sean at dague dot net                            Linux Users Group
http://dague.net                                 http://mhvlug.org

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