Re: Thinkpad t21 hard lockup when left overnight

[Shaya Potter <spotter@cs.columbia.edu>]

just woke up to a locked up solid machine.  It seemed to have locked up
after about 2 hours of inactivity on the machine.

shaya

On Thu, 2001-11-22 at 23:25, Shaya Potter wrote:
> On Thu, 2001-11-22 at 23:14, Jeff Chua wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > On 22 Nov 2001, Shaya Potter wrote:
> > 
> > > /usr/sbin/apmd -P /etc/apm/apmd_proxy
> > 
> > What version of apmd? My says "apmd version 3.0final"
> 
> same :)
> 
> spotter@zaphod:~$ dpkg --status apmd |grep Version
> Version: 3.0.1-1
> 
> > 
> > You might want to call IBM to check if there's a more recent bios upgrade
> > that you can get. Check for T21 at the IBM site below ...
> > 
> >  http://www.pc.ibm.com/support?lang=en_US&page=brand&brand=IBM+ThinkPad
> > 
> > Look for T21 under the device driver file matrices.
> > 
> > (Fix) Hang up occurs when suspend/resume is done on a ThinkPad
> > with HDD adapter without a hard disk drive in the ultrabay 2000.
> > (Fix) ACPI compatible Linux hangs up at boot timing.
> 
> I have a fairly recent version.  I boot it into windows for class once
> or twice a week (shoot me, I find it easier to take notes in MS Word,
> than in AbiWord), and since the classroom is wired for wireless ethernet
> I usually use that time to use IBM's automated utility to check for
> updates, and it checks and updates the bios appropriatly if there are
> any updates.
> 
> > 
> > My /usr/src/linux/.config ...
> > 
> > # CONFIG_ACPI is not set
> > CONFIG_APM=m
> > # CONFIG_APM_IGNORE_USER_SUSPEND is not set
> all same
> > CONFIG_APM_DO_ENABLE=y
> different
> > CONFIG_APM_CPU_IDLE=y
> same
> > # CONFIG_APM_DISPLAY_BLANK is not set
> different
> > # CONFIG_APM_RTC_IS_GMT is not set
> (same)
> > # CONFIG_APM_ALLOW_INTS is not set
> (different)
> > # CONFIG_APM_REAL_MODE_POWER_OFF is not set
> (same)
> 
> will try adjusting them to your values, and seeing if it locks up on me
> tonight :)
> 
> shaya
> 
> 
> 
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