[Linux-disciples] screen problem -- thinkpad x40

[Adam Rosi-Kessel]

On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 03:00:00PM -0400, Chung-chieh Shan wrote:
> On 2004-10-26T14:27:36-0400, Adam Rosi-Kessel wrote:
> > Probably the best solution is going to be to switch to ACPI
> > suspend/resume rather than APM.  With kernel 2.6.9, I have ACPI
> > hibernate/resume working on the X40 without any modifications. This also
> > has the advantage of the system being complete "off" while hibernated--no
> > power is used at all.
> > 
> > (to invoke suspend/resume, at least for me, it's just echo -n disk >
> > /sys/power/state).
> Whoa!  No patches to the kernel's ACPI code, not even a hibernation
> script to stop and restart stuff?

Yup.  Just plain old /sys/power/state.  I'm even thinking of attaching a
special button to it.

I think there may be certain things that don't totally come up
right--e.g., 3d acceleration--but that is sort of flaky anyway right now.
-- 
Adam Rosi-Kessel
http://adam.rosi-kessel.org
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