Re: Problems withs uspend on IBM thinkpad 380xd - screens stay blank on resume
I think figured it out:
Creating the file /etc/pcmcia/apm.opts
with the line
APM=eject
seems to make supsend, redisafe, and hibernate magically
start working now...
Dwaine Gonyier wrote:
> I am trying to get suspend, hibernate, etc. working on
> an IBM thinkpad 380xd. I managed to recompile a kernel
> with the thinkpad modules included. The problem I am
> having is that the laptop seems to enter supsend OK, but
> on resume, the display stays blank (the backlight turns on though).
> I can ping, telnet, etc.
> to the laptop, but no consoles are viewable. I am using text consoles
> right now, and I plan to use X "on demand" rather than on boot.
> I have X turned off while I try to fiure this suspend stuff out.
> Both Fn-F4 on the keyboard and apm --suspend seem to exhibit this
> problem.
>
>
> BTW, I have used Linux before, but I am new to Debian.
>
> I am running the 3.0r1 stable distribution. I started with
> the 2.4.18-bf2.4 kernel.
>
> If it is helpful, here is what kernel sources I used:
> kernel 2.4.18
> apmd 3.0.2 (from stock debian binary package--did not compile this)
> thinkpad-source 3.5
> pcmcia-cs 3.1.33
>
> The laptop model is 2635FAU
>
> Here are the APM options I compiled in the kernel:
> CONFIG_PM=y
> # CONFIG_ACPI is not set
> CONFIG_APM=y
> # CONFIG_APM_IGNORE_USER_SUSPEND is not set
> # CONFIG_APM_DO_ENABLE is not set
> CONFIG_APM_CPU_IDLE=y
> CONFIG_APM_DISPLAY_BLANK=y
> CONFIG_APM_RTC_IS_GMT=y
> CONFIG_APM_ALLOW_INTS=y
> # CONFIG_APM_REAL_MODE_POWER_OFF is not set
>
> Are there some things I should set up related to tpctl? I have used
> that utility to query
> BIOS settings from the new kernel without problems. I'm not sure if I
> need to
> modify APM mode scripts or something (like ejecting cards, etc.)
> because I haven't figured out how Debian handles those events.
>
> I don't know if it matters, but I turned off PCMCIA support in the
> kernel in order to use
> pcmcia-cs instead. The latter works with my SMC-8035TX ethernet card.
> Plus I think I need this to get a Linksys WPC11 ver 3 working as well
> (ala linux-wlan--I saw a HOWTO on ldp for this using pcmcia-cs).
>
> The irony is that Fn-F3 (turn off display) works fine and I can wake
> up the display from that with no problems. I also enabled the
> autoblank after timeout feature via PS2.EXe under Dos, and that seems
> to work OK. I enabled the latter because I noticed that the APM
> features of Linux would
> blank the display, but do not turn off the backlight.
>
> To clarify, the problems I am having are related to suspend (Fn-F4).
> apm --suspend seems to have the same problem.
>
> Hibernate doesn't work yet (yes, I have a hiber file on a DOs
> partition, but I read in the FAQ on linux-thinkpad.org that there are
> some other things that need to be modified first).
>
>
>
>
> --
> Dwaine Gonyier
> dwaine_gonyier@mindspring.com
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Dwaine Gonyier
dwaine_gonyier@mindspring.com
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