Re: [LUG] Laptops anyone?

[Gary Stringer <G.B.Stringer at exeter.ac.uk>]

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On Mon, 5 Feb 2001 23:28:55 -0000 Kelly Jones <kj at kellyjones.worldonline.co.uk> wrote:

> I see you mentioned an IBM thinkpad 560, i have mandrake 7.2 running on my
> thinkpad but i can't get suspend to work.
> The laptop suspends ok but is locked up when i resume, CTRL, ALT, BACKSPACE
> does nothing and i have also tried manually suspending from a command line
> but this still locks up the machine.
> I would be grateful if you could shed any light on this as apart from that
> Linux runs very well and it is the only thing stopping me from running Linux
> all the time.

Hmmm, is it a 560? This seems different to the problems I had - mine wouldn't go into 
suspend at all. I did get a similar effect when I used wdm rather than xdm, but that was 
on startup. I got round it by switching bvack to 

Couple of things to check:

  1. Are you ejecting pcmcia cards before suspending? 
  2. Is it trying to use a non-existent hibernation file (eg Redisafe)?
  3. Does it only happen after using the floppy drive, or does it not work after every 
suspend?

There's a few more things worth trying - get back to me with more details (eg kernel 
version and config) and I'll have a poke around in my archives...


Gary

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Gary Stringer" <G.B.Stringer at exeter.ac.uk>
> To: <lug-list at area51.termisoc.org>
> Sent: Monday, February 05, 2001 5:40 PM
> Subject: Re: [LUG] Laptops anyone?
> 
> 
> > Hi Simon,
> >
> > I've been 'lurking' on the lug-list for a while, so thought I'd come out
> of the woodwork
> > on this one ... I've been running Debian on an ancient and venerable IBM
> ThinkPad 560 for
> > about three years (just upgraded to a 2.4 kernel).
> >
> > On Mon, 05 Feb 2001 17:01:21 +0000 Simon Waters
> <Simon at wretched.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> >
> > > Just stuck Linux on my Laptop (Acer Travelmate 200DX) despite the...
> >
> > There's a few useful web pages dedicated to linux laptops, try:
> >
> >     http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/linux-laptop/
> >     http://mobilix.org/Mobile-Guide.db/Mobile-Guide.html
> >
> > And specifically for the Travelmate 200 series:
> >
> >     http://www.earth.ox.ac.uk/~steve/travelmate/
> >
> > X is always a pig to set up on laptops; it's usually easiest to find
> someone who's done
> > it already on your make/model and steal their Xconfig...
> >
> > The other thing that I found messy was suspend/hibernate, but that's
> because ThinkPads
> > are a bit non-standard on that front, I think. It took a lot of tinkering
> to get it
> > working, but now it's far more stable than the windows suspend/hibernate
> ;-) Support for
> > laptops has steadily improved over the last few years.
> >
> > Good luck, and keep persevering!
> >
> > Gary
> > ---------------------------------------------------------
> > Gary Stringer                Humanities Computing Officer
> > Pallas (Humanities Computing) at University of Exeter, UK
> > G.B.Stringer at exeter.ac.uk      http://www.ex.ac.uk/pallas
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Gary Stringer                Humanities Computing Officer
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G.B.Stringer at exeter.ac.uk      http://www.ex.ac.uk/pallas
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