Fedora with IBM ThinkPad R40e

[Bill Nottingham]

As Wi (as1156397 at yahoo.com) said: 
> Hello,
> 
> I just installed Fedora Core 1 on my IBM ThinkPad R40e
> laptop, which generally works well. Some problems that
> still occur:
> 
> 1. I still cannot make my laptop to standby and
> hibernate mode (perhaps this is related to ACPI). Once
> I tried to execute:
> 
> modprobe ac, I got the following reply:
> 
> /lib/modules/2.4.22-1.2115.nptl/kernel/drivers/acpi/ac.o:
> init_module: No such device
> Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module
> parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters.
>       You may find more information in syslog or the
> output from dmesg
> /lib/modules/2.4.22-1.2115.nptl/kernel/drivers/acpi/ac.o:
> insmod
> /lib/modules/2.4.22-1.2115.nptl/kernel/drivers/acpi/ac.o
> failed
> /lib/modules/2.4.22-1.2115.nptl/kernel/drivers/acpi/ac.o:
> insmod ac failed
> 
> A similar reply I also got when I tried to execute
> modprobe battery.

Did you boot with acpi=on? Note that most recent Thinkpads
(dunno about the R40e) do actually work with APM.

Bill