Subject: R: APM troubles on IBM TP600E with Mandrake 7.2
From: The Lastboot (lastboot@tiscalinet.it)
Date: Tue Dec 12 2000 - 16:59:43 GMT+1
Alasdair McAndrew <Alasdair.McAndrew@vu.edu.au> wrote in message
m3hf4a8qnb.fsf@addison.vu.edu.au...
> 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.
Maybe you have to recompile the kernel, look the section about APM in
General Setup (make menuconfig or make xconfig) and make it appropriate to
your laptop. I had the same problem and with a trick I don't remember I
fixed it. Remember, the solution is in the kernel ! ! !
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