IBM ThinkPad T42 ACPI suspend woes

[Jan Kokoska]

On Mon, 2004-10-11 at 00:40 -0400, Tim Hull wrote:
> I've thought about that, however, I don't normally mind suspend to RAM's 
> battery usage, and I like the near-instant-on that this offers.  Also, I 
> really don't want to have compile a new kernel, especially if I have to 
> add several patches to get speedstepping, ACPI, software suspend, wi-fi, 
> etc to all work, since Ubuntu's default kernel works great with just 
> about everything (except suspend).

I use both suspend methods, depending on what I need. I don't normally
shutdown my laptop anymore so when I am leaving office or home, it is
suspend to disk, when I am going to lunch a lid close event triggers
suspend to ram (and locking the X screen just before that, that bit was
tricky for xauth is very mean).

I used to use Debian default kernel after about a year of compiling my
own, and was reasonably happy with it - until I learnt about ipw2100
driver for Centrino Wi-Fi (Knoppix has it by default) and the suspend
patches. Since I could afford spending the time on fully customizing my
kernel for what I wanted to do on this particular machine, I am happy
with compiling my kernels again.

IMO, you will never have *everything* working out of the box on any
system, the advantage of OSS is that you can *make* it work. Then maybe
write a howto, submit patches, etc. In the case of suspend, the path has
already been walked many times, so it is reasonably safe ;)

Regards,
Jan