Re: Fix up power managment in 2.6

Jeff Garzik
2003-09-05T18:02:55Z

On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 10:47:49AM -0700, Patrick Mochel wrote:
> > 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)

Jeff