On Thursday 08 April 2010 16:23:37 Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2010-04-08, STeve Andre' <and...@msu.edu> wrote: > > ahci0 at pci0 dev 31 function 2 "Intel 82801I AHCI" rev 0x03: apic 1 int > > 16 (irq 11), AHCI 1.2 > > at this stage you might want to change your sata chip over to > the legacy interface so pciide can attach (you will of course > also need to adjust sd to wd in fstab; familiarity with ed, or > an already-edited file you can mv into place from single-user > mode, would be an advantage). > > some acpi-only systems will now suspend and (at least some > devices) resume, but be in no doubt, there's still a lot left to > do (in particular a lot of work on drivers). > > even so, this totally rocks. in particular I think it's great > that this is an independent implementation and not just a rehash > of the intel code.
Thanks, Stuart. I agree that this is really cool. It appears that the W500 is shutting down, but somebody isn't reattaching yet. I tried the compatibity mode, but there was no difference, ie I still an an inadventantly narcoleptic laptop. Willing to be a test case for other ideas! --STeve Andre'