kernel-2.6.17-1.2139_FC5 broke ACPI S3 on thinkpad T42p

Matthew Saltzman mjs at ces.clemson.edu
Thu Jul 6 15:16:54 UTC 2006


On Thu, 6 Jul 2006, Charles Curley wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 05, 2006 at 10:16:28PM -0400, Todd Zullinger wrote:
>
>>
>> I haven't tried too awful many things, mostly because I've yet to
>> figure out how the suspend and hibernate process is meant to work in
>> FC5.  Things are different with the pm-utils than then were with older
>> versions, as near as I can tell.
>>
>> This is the first laptop I've had, so it's my first time even
>> experimenting with the power management stuff.  If I can find docs on
>> how the system works or make the time to pick through all the code to
>> figure it out, I'll feel more comfortable in being able to try adding
>> this or that to the mix to see what works.
>
> Have you looked at http://tuxmobil.org/ or
> http://www.linux-on-laptops.com/? Both provide pointers to writeups on
> specific laptop models. Perhaps one of the writeups on your model will
> have working scripts.

Also see http://www.ces.clemson.edu/linux/ for a description of how to use 
the radeonfb driver.  Among other things, it fixes excessive power 
consumption on suspend with some Radeon cards, and it may also affect the 
resume functionality.

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 		Matthew Saltzman

Clemson University Math Sciences
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