Re: apm death

[Tom Allison <tallison1@twmi.rr.com>]

Tremaine Lea wrote:

> What happens if you plug the AC in before putting it to sleep?
>
>
> On Wed, 2001-09-26 at 04:49, Tom Allison wrote:
>
> > bleah!
> > I upgraded to kernel 2.4 and am running into a problem with apm 
> > suspend/sleep.
> >
> > For example:  I hit the keyboard buttons to suspend the computer for the 
> > night (not Hibernate) and it goes to "sleep" just fine.
> > I close the lid, OK.
> > I plug in the power cord to recharge - computer beeps, comes back to 
> > life, and the screen/keyboard hang.  I'm not in X at the time because 
> > I've always had problems with that with apm functions.
> >
> > Now my only recourse is to power off and hope I didn't fry my hard drive.
> >
> > Besides "don't do that", does anyone have any suggestions even where to 
> > start?
> >
> > I have an IBM Thinkpad A21m with Debian -testing installed.

I think that the "DEATH" I was experiencing was from a badly behaving 
pcmcia card.
even the apm option for suspend or eject failed to fix anything (or work).
But with the card at least suspended - it's working OK.