Updating the BIOS to 1.40 went flawless, if a little bit convoluted. As the R30 has no floppy drive and is not running Windows, no IBM-supported update path exists. ThinkWiki has a valuable page: "http://thinkwiki.org/wiki/BIOS_Upgrade#Updating_via_CD.2FDVD_Drive";. In a nutshell, you have to download the program to create a boot floppy and run it on a windows machine with a floppy drive. Then boot linux on that machine (KNOPPIX comes to mind...) and create an image of that floppy. At last you can create and burn a CD image that boots the floppy image. I can mail the CD image to you if you're interested.
As I said, latest version is 1.40 (Aug. 2006). If you want to check your BIOS' version, do a "sudo dmidecode | less". You'll find a "Version:" tag in the BIOS Information stanza, which is probably the first. Success re resume after suspend to disk has been mixed. At first sight, nothing seemed to have changed - screen goes out, laptop freezes. But accidentally leaving the laptop in this state for a while showed some disk activity! After a reboot my debugging output lists the first two resume scripts as having been called... So, my next actions will be * Try SysRq. I previously thought that my machine didn't react to Alt-SysRq combos, but checking while running normally revealed that I have to use the *right* Alt-key (which is in fact labeled as "AltGr" on my german keyboard). * Check and maybe change the DSDT (again). The new BIOS revision might have changed something. * Weed out all unneeded resume.d scripts. Maybe there's one which leads to this bug...? I'll let you know if I discover anything interesting. OT: Slow installation is probably not a result of not enough RAM but of a slow hard disk. Running on 512MB here did'nt make the installation (update actually) go any faster. Cheers, schnirfl -- Kernel Won't Boot on an IBM Thinkpad R30 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/36998 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
