> True, but I think it should be noted that there's only one likely situation
> of serious data loss that seems to be known with APM (that's related to DMA
> driven IDE drives operating at the time of suspend).
Everybody in the world who has a "crashes when tries to resume" problem has
experien
> True, but I think it should be noted that there's only one likely situation
> of serious data loss that seems to be known with APM (that's related to DMA
> driven IDE drives operating at the time of suspend).
Everybody in the world who has a "crashes when tries to resume" problem has
experie
On Sun, 10 Mar 2002 07:58, Heather wrote:
> The choice of experimenting with crappy APM (because the Beast From Redmond
> implements ACPI so much better than they implement APM, hardware
> manufacturers no longer properly regression test it; I have first hand
> experience with that issue) ...
>
>
On Sun, 10 Mar 2002 07:58, Heather wrote:
> The choice of experimenting with crappy APM (because the Beast From Redmond
> implements ACPI so much better than they implement APM, hardware
> manufacturers no longer properly regression test it; I have first hand
> experience with that issue) ...
>
>
> ACPI is very complex, there is some sort of programming language needed for
> communication with the BIOS, and to make things even more challenging many
> laptops get it wrong in subtle ways because there wasn't much OS support to
> test it with at the time they were designed!
Well, they fai
> ACPI is very complex, there is some sort of programming language needed for
> communication with the BIOS, and to make things even more challenging many
> laptops get it wrong in subtle ways because there wasn't much OS support to
> test it with at the time they were designed!
Well, they fa
Russell Coker writes:
> ACPI is still quite experimental, and I recommend not using it unless you
> want to help in testing or development. So if you want to just use a laptop
> to get things done (as the original question was about) then APM is really
> the only option.
Sure, but some laptop
Russell Coker writes:
> ACPI is still quite experimental, and I recommend not using it unless you
> want to help in testing or development. So if you want to just use a laptop
> to get things done (as the original question was about) then APM is really
> the only option.
Sure, but some lapto
On Sat, 9 Mar 2002 22:41, Heather wrote:
> > If you want to try ACPI, though, beware that kernel support for it is
> > not as mature as for APM, and it may not work as well.
>
> To clarify re ACPI:
>
> Kernel support seems to be much further along than it was several months
> ago... but that's just
> Richard Wurdack writes:
> >> I discover, however, that if I shut the lid on the box (it might be
> >> hibernating, don't know - I didn't doing anything special for APM),
> >> and reopen it, pon can't dial out without a reboot (just like
> >> Windows!).
>
> ThinkPads, by default, suspend when you
On Sat, 9 Mar 2002 22:41, Heather wrote:
> > If you want to try ACPI, though, beware that kernel support for it is
> > not as mature as for APM, and it may not work as well.
>
> To clarify re ACPI:
>
> Kernel support seems to be much further along than it was several months
> ago... but that's jus
> Richard Wurdack writes:
> >> I discover, however, that if I shut the lid on the box (it might be
> >> hibernating, don't know - I didn't doing anything special for APM),
> >> and reopen it, pon can't dial out without a reboot (just like
> >> Windows!).
>
> ThinkPads, by default, suspend when yo
On Fri, 8 Mar 2002 22:23, Richard Wurdack wrote:
> I discover, however, that if I shut the lid on the box (it might be
> hibernating, don't know - I didn't doing anything special for APM), and
> reopen it, pon can't dial out without a reboot (just like Windows!).
Here's the APM related kernel buil
On Fri, 8 Mar 2002 22:23, Richard Wurdack wrote:
> I discover, however, that if I shut the lid on the box (it might be
> hibernating, don't know - I didn't doing anything special for APM), and
> reopen it, pon can't dial out without a reboot (just like Windows!).
Here's the APM related kernel bui
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> "Heather" == Heather <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Richard Wurdack writes:
>> I discover, however, that if I shut the lid on the box (it might be
>> hibernating, don't know - I didn't doing anything special for APM),
>> and reopen it, pon can't d
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> "Heather" == Heather <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Richard Wurdack writes:
>> I discover, however, that if I shut the lid on the box (it might be
>> hibernating, don't know - I didn't doing anything special for APM),
>> and reopen it, pon can't
> Hello,
>
> Sorry for the cross-post, but this thread has generic and laptop related
> issues.
>
> I installed Potato (running the default 2.2.19 kernel) on an IBM 600e
> Thinkpad about a month ago. I seem to have clobbered something
>
> This problem list is in chronological order. I'm not (
Hello,
Sorry for the cross-post, but this thread has generic and laptop related
issues.
I installed Potato (running the default 2.2.19 kernel) on an IBM 600e
Thinkpad about a month ago. I seem to have clobbered something
This problem list is in chronological order. I'm not (necessarily) looki
> Hello,
>
> Sorry for the cross-post, but this thread has generic and laptop related
> issues.
>
> I installed Potato (running the default 2.2.19 kernel) on an IBM 600e
> Thinkpad about a month ago. I seem to have clobbered something
>
> This problem list is in chronological order. I'm not
Hello,
Sorry for the cross-post, but this thread has generic and laptop related
issues.
I installed Potato (running the default 2.2.19 kernel) on an IBM 600e
Thinkpad about a month ago. I seem to have clobbered something
This problem list is in chronological order. I'm not (necessarily) look
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