Re: Notebook disk spindown

[Christoph Rohland]

Russell King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Jamie Lokier writes:
> > With laptops, people are willing
> > to assume the RAM is reliable -- accidentally pulling the plug out won't
> > lose the data.
> 
> But a buggy apm implementation and the battery running down can.
> 
> (and I've seen my Thinkpad 380XD with RH's 2.2.14-5.0 kernel and
> RH's apmd run itself dead.  Kill apmd and it'll do the right thing
> and suspend, then hibernate.  And no, I haven't even attempted to
> debugg it yet).

Enable the 'Ignore multiple suspend' kernel option...

Greetings
                Christoph

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