Re: Kernel 2.6.X versus APM Suspend on IBM X23

[David Weinehall <tao@debian.org>]

On Wed, Mar 31, 2004 at 05:27:23PM -0500, Vincent C Jones wrote:
> I have found several postings asking about suspend problems on IBM
> thinkpads, but no answers so far. Here is what I have so far:
> 
> Using APM with ACPI and CPUfreq disabled: Suspend works, but only if
> running on battery. When running on AC, I get what sound like PCMCIA
> failure beeps (brief high low), the display goes dark, but the system
> keeps on running and hitting any key brings be right back (at least
> usually, using earlier versions of 2.6 circa .2, the system would
> sometimes lock up after restoring the screen, at which point, sometimes
> C-A-Del or Alt-sysreq-B would work, and sometimes not.)
> 
> FWIW: there were no problems with suspend under any 2.4 kernels. 

I can confirm the exact same behaviour on a Thinkpad A20m.


Regards: David Weinehall
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