[ltp] Re: Thinkpad 600e troubles

[Rolf Kutz]

Hi,

On 15/03/10 08:00 -0600, Daniel Jensen wrote:
> I've been having no end of trouble getting a TP600E set up correctly.
> After a dozen kernel recompiles and a bunch of putzing around with
> userspace I'm about ready to tear my hair out; I thought I'd try asking
> here first and perhaps save myself from getting some strange pattern
> baldness.
>
> Thinkpad-acpi doesn't seem to be able to do much in the way of hotkey
> support; I can get the standby button to work sometimes but not always,
> and the hibernate button never works (I'm not just talking "it doesn't
> hibernate," rather "it doesn't seem to be generating any events I can
> set up ACPI actions for"). The kernel boot message is:
> thinkpad_acpi: acpi_bus_get_device(hotkey) failed: -19
> thinkpad_acpi: disabling subdriver hotkey
> thinkpad_acpi: asked for hotkey mask 0x0001880c, but firmware forced it
> to 0x0000080c
> thinkpad_acpi: required events 0x000180000 not enabled!
>
> If anybody has any insight on how to get resuming from standby to
> display something other than garbage without manually switching to one
> of the non-X terminals and then back to X, I'd be quite grateful. I hear  
> s3_bios options and vbetool are used for this kind of thing, but I
> haven't been able to discover a combination that works.

I used to own a 600e. It doesn't support ACPI very
well, but everything used to work with APM.
Suspend and hibernation work very well. You have
to create a hibernation file in a DOS-partition
with the DOS-tool from IBM.

regards
Rolf
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