Subject: Re: APM troubles on IBM TP600E with Mandrake 7.2
From: Alexander Clouter (alexander.clouter@ic.ac.uk)
Date: Thu Dec 14 2000 - 10:39:41 GMT+1
On 12 Dec 2000 10:49:44 +1100, Alasdair McAndrew wrote:
>
> 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 would recommend playing with your /etc/X11/XF86Config file (or where
ever it is kept). But before you do try suspending the laptop from the
console, ie. don't activate suspend from within X. X has *never* really
been happy about doing this. If _seems_ to fix things do various tests
and make sure X is working still, even though you suspended from the
console.
If you find X did not survive press <Ctrl>-<Alt>-<Backspace> from within
the mangled X. If that sorts things out then its a X acceleration
feature that needs....."dealing with" :)
If this is the case get back to me and I will give a step by step guide
on fixing X.
Alex
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