new kernel for testing

[Satish Balay]

On Fri, 28 May 2004, Michal Jaegermann wrote:

> On Tue, May 25, 2004 at 01:47:50PM -0500, Satish Balay wrote:
>> ACPI with the new kernel doesn't work on IBM ThinkPad T40. With
>>
>> echo 3 > /proc/acpi/sleep
>>
>> the machine briefly attempts to go to sleep and then comes back.
>
> On Acer TM 230 I found that a presence of ehci_hcd was responsible
> for such behaviour.  OTOH if that module was not loaded in a startup
> sequence then the only recognized USB devices were those which were
> plugged in while booting and after disconnections and replugging
> they were no longer accessible. It turns out that rmmoding ehci_hcd
> before attempts to put a box to sleep is good enough and that module
> does not have to be re-inserted for USB devices to be noticed again;
> either when plugged anew or after a laptop resumes.  No idea why.
>
> I also had to add 'acpi_sleep=s3_bios' to boot parameters or
> video was gone.  Still putting TM 230 to sleep kills an access
> to an internal floppy but so far these are all losses.  I do not
> know about PCMCIA slot as I have at this moment nothing to stick
> there.
>
> If any of the above will work with ThinkPad I cannot tell but
> it is worth to try.

Thanks for the info. I've tried removing ehci_hcd before suspend - and
it worked on the T40.

Satish