[ltp] Which Distro supports T60?

[Aaron Mulder]

Okay, some testing with suspend to RAM.  Suspend always works, but
resume doesn't.  The resume behavior with various options is:

By default, the screen doesn't turn back on and the suspend light
stays on and while the numlock light can be toggled, nothing else
really works.

With s3bios enabled (via a SuSE configuration that says it uses
s2ram), the screen turns back on and the suspend light eventually
turns off, but the screen is full of garbage.

With s3bios,s3mode enabled, the screen comes back legible again, and
eventually the desktop comes back up, but the disk never appears to
wake up.  There's a message saying something like "ata1 is not
responding, please be patient" for a while before the desktop comes
back.  It's like the hard drive wasn't re-activated on resume.

If anyone has any suggestions for troubleshooting this, it would be great.

Thanks,
    Aaron

On 4/1/06, Aaron Mulder <ammulder@alumni.princeton.edu> wrote:
> Before you ask, I still haven't tried APM.
>
> But I did manage to get the Verizon broadband wireless working under
> Linux.  The main formula is here (though you can ignore the udev and
> hwconfig files and just use "modprobe usbserial vendor=3D0x1199
> product=3D0x0218" if you're not using SuSE):
>
> http://www.evdoforums.com/viewtopic.php?t=3D2095&start=3D0&postdays=3D0&p=
ostorder=3Dasc&highlight
>
> One important step is that if the Verizon light on the machine is not
> lit and it won't connect, use the wireless power switch on the front
> of the machine to turn wireless off and on again, and then the Verizon
> should work.
>
> Thanks,
>     Aaron
>
> On 3/28/06, Felix E. Klee <felix.klee@inka.de> wrote:
> > At Mon, 27 Mar 2006 21:06:00 -0500,
> > Aaron Mulder wrote:
> > > I have no idea.  Is there some simple way to test this without
> > > reconfiguring my whole installation?
> >
> > There are three ways (but there may be a simpler one):
> >
> > * Look in the documentation included with the system.
> >
> > * Look in the Hardware Maintenance Manual whether there is any
> >   mentioning of APM.  OK, I can do that myself.  Though, it
> >
> > * If you're using "grub" as boot manager (it's most likely the default
> >   of SuSE 10.1), then enable APM and disable ACPI, just during one
> >   start.  The relevant kernel parameters: "apm=3Don acpi=3Doff".  Once
> >   booted into LINUX, execute "apm" which tells one whether APM is
> >   available or not.
> >
> > > Suspend to RAM did not even give it a go before failing, complaining
> > > that the machine is not on a whitelist or something.  There's an
> > > override flag I'll try later.  Suspend to disk worked, though there
> > > was an error-like message right before the video came back up.
> >
> > Thanks for the report!
> >
> > > It's the bit in the middle of this excerpt:
> >
> > No idea, sorry.  It may not even be a problem, perhaps indeed just
> > debugging output.
> >
> > > It also uses a different power adapter and different main and ultraba=
y
> > > batteries.
> >
> > That's a disadvantage, but I assume that there are technical reasons fo=
r
> > this switch.
> >
> > --
> > Felix E. Klee
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