Re: Fix up power managment in 2.6

Pavel Machek
2003-09-05T19:06:57Z

Hi!

> > > > the power LED still on and the hibernate light off, and the thing's a
> > > > brick at that point; the only thing you can do is hold the power button
> > > > down for ten seconds or pop the battery to get it to boot back up from
> > > > scratch.) So I have to shut the sucker down every time I want to move
> > > > it, which is a pain...
> > >
> > > What model is it? It probably doesn't support APM at all. I can't
> > > guarantee that ACPI suspend/resume will work on it, but I'm interested to
> > > see if it does..
> >
> > Note that a lot of ThinkPads out in the field need a BIOS update
> > before their ACPI is working. (I know this because IBM was quite
> > helpful and proactive in addressing their Linux-related ACPI BIOS
> > issues)
>
> ACPI currently works fine in terms of IRQ routing, sensing when the lid closes
> and the power button gets pressed, telling me how much battery power is left
> and when I disconnect the AC adapter from the wall...
>
> I was hoping software suspend would avoid having to have IBM firmware involved
> in the suspend process at all (it can boot, it can shut down, I just want it
> to snapshot process state so it comes up with the same things up on the
> desktop as last time).

Yes software suspend can do that.

> P.S. I reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeally hate it the way the keys on the keyboard
> sometimes have an up event delayed (or miss it entirely) and decide to
> auto-repeat insanely fast. It happens about twice an hour. I've seen mouse
> clicks do it as well. Not a show-stopper, just annoying.

I guess that *is* showstopper. Unfortunately notebook keyboards tend
to be crappy :-(.
Pavel
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