Re: Multiple problems on Thinkpad A31p

Richard Jelinek
2004-12-05T15:20:29Z

Hi Garett,

thanks for your answer.

On Sun, Dec 05, 2004 at 02:06:07AM +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> Not all hardware seems to switch the backlight off sensibly on entering
> ACPI suspend. Your suspend script probably tries to trigger the X DPMS
> call, which will blank the screen - the kernel then switches back to a
> console and turns the backlight on again. Can you try the program
> attached to
> http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2576 ?

downloaded, renamed (comes as attachement.cgi with Firefox 1.0)

standby, suspend & off: switch the display off completely - no backlight
reduced: no effect
on: switches screen on again

Don't know whether there should be more parameters, the syntax
description doesn't end with a ']'

What do the results tell us?

> 2.6.9 has better USB power management.

Hopefully it handles then Unplug (DVD-RAM) & Plug (USB-Craddle for
Palm) of the Ultrabay as good as the 2.4.26 did: without freezing the
machine. ;-)

> I think this has been fixed, but I don't know whether it'll hit 2.6.10.
> Adding hwclock --hctosys in the resume script ought to work around it.

Ok.

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