Re: APM unusable since 2.4.10

[Stig Brautaset <stigbrau@online.no>]

* Enrico Zini <zinie@cs.unibo.it> spake thus:
> Hello,
> 
> I have a Mitac 7521 laptop, which is a SIS630 chipset with a Phoenix BIOS
> and some interesting hardware around.
> 
> Until kernel 2.4.9 included I was able to suspend to ram and to disk with
> APM and to have my system back most of the times, and I was almost happy
> with that.  Since kernel 2.4.10, when APM kicks in for anything (even just
> for turning off the LCD display), the system gets badly hung and I have to
> switch it off the hard way (i.e. holding down the power button for >4
> seconds).
> 
> For now I resorted to ACPI, but in its current state I loose all suspend
> and hybernation features I had.
> 
> Does anybody have experienced with similar problems, and has some more
> informations to give me about it?

Hi Enrico,

I have a Dell Latitude CPxH500GT and I have not experienced any of the
problems you descibe above (I thought I had, but it turned out gf had
powercycled my laptop :-). 

I also react to the part where you say that the system was back up *most
times* after suspend. This sound rather flaky. I have had no trouble with
apm suspend or hibernation at all. Don't know if this flakyness is due
to harware problems or what, maybe others can answer this. BTW, what
options do you use with apm in the kernel config? And do you include it
directly or compile it as a module? 

Regards,
Stig

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