Re: Thinkpad R32 clock too slow

[Stefan Rotsch <linux@stefanrotsch.de>]

On 2003.03.13 17:35 Nicholas A. Preyss wrote:

> Ok, i'll look into this ACPI stuff. I tried it, but it didn't work
> properly. The power saving function didn't seem to work, maybe because
> of this bug So this might be an explanation. Considering your 
> statement
> and the BIOS Update ChangeLog, it seems the Version 2.04 doesn't
> already contain a corrected table?
Power saving is under heavy development in the 2.5.x kernel series.
The current 2.4.x kernels only support S4 (suspend to disk) with a
special patch ("swsusp"); S3 (suspend to ram) is unsupported.

> Had anyone tried the patch from here:
> http://www.poupinou.org/acpi/ibm_ecdt.html ? It seems it adresse
> exactly this problem.
I did. But ACPI doesn't recognize the battery, even with this patch :-(

Stefan