Re: swsusp and suspend2 like to overheat my laptop

Steven Rostedt
2006-08-08T23:50:25Z

On Wed, 9 Aug 2006, Nigel Cunningham wrote:

> Hi.
>
> On Wednesday 09 August 2006 09:35, Lee Revell wrote:
> > On Tue, 2006-08-08 at 19:31 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > > On Wed, 9 Aug 2006, Nigel Cunningham wrote:
> > > > The problem will be ACPI related, not particular to swsusp or Suspend2,
> > > > which is why you're seeing it with both implementations. I would
> > > > suggest that you contact the ACPI guys, and also look to see whether
> > > > there is a bios update available and/or a DSDT override for your
> > > > machine. The later will help if the problem is with your particular
> > > > machine's ACPI support, the former if it's a more general ACPI issue.
> > >
> > > Thanks for the response Nigel,
> > >
> > > There does exist a recent bios update for this machine:
> > >
> > > http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?sitestyle=lenovo&l
> > >ndocid=MIGR-58127
> > >
> > > Hmm, it requires windows, and I've already wiped out that partition. I
> > > did a search but it seems really scary to update the BIOS via Linux.
> > >
> > > Anyone else out there have a Thinkpad G41 and has successfully upgraded
> > > their BIOS?
> >
> > I would just report it to the ACPI people. It's a bug if Linux does not
> > work with the same BIOS + DSDT that the other OS works on.
>
> True. I was assuming (perhaps wrongly?) that Steven is interested in both
> getting the bug fixed and being able to hibernate while he waits for the ACPI
> guys to achieve bug-for-bug compatibility with M$; hence suggesting doing
> both.
>

I would prefer to do both, but I really can't tell you if the $OTHER_OS
works or not. I booted it once with this machine, and that was only to
register it with IBM. ;)

After that, I slapped in my Debian install CD and the rest is history.

-- Steve