Subject: APM troubles on IBM TP600E with Mandrake 7.2
From: Alasdair McAndrew (Alasdair.McAndrew@vu.edu.au)
Date: Mon Dec 11 2000 - 22:49:44 GMT+1
Hi there,
I've just replaced a rather antiquated slackware distribution on my
laptop (IBM ThinkPad 600E) with Mandrake 7.2. The installation went
extremely smoothly, and everything works -- even sound.
However, when I attempt to standby or suspend (apm -s, or apm -S), the
machine goes to sleep -- but won't wake up. That is to say, I get the
screen as it was, but both mouse and keyboard are frozen, and I can't
do anything except a hard reboot. Even if I logout out from X to a
bare console, the same trouble occurs.
This isn't a hardware problem, as everything worked fine before. So
it must be a bug either in:
- the kernel (2.2.17-12)
- in apmd (3.0)
- in Mandrake's implementation of these.
Does anybody have any useful suggestions here? I don't really want to
have to shutdown and reboot the laptop every time I need to transport
it (say from office to lecture theatre).
I've spent some time trawling the Web for useful information, but so
far have found nothing. So any advice would be most welcome!
cheers,
Alasdair McAndrew
School of Communications and Informatics Phone: +61 3 9688 4344
Victoria University of Technology Fax: +61 3 9688 4050
P.O. 14428, Melbourne City Mail Centre Alasdair.McAndrew@vu.edu.au
Melbourne, Vic 8001, Australia http://cams.vu.edu.au/~amca
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