IBM x40 suspend/resume

[christophe barbe]

On Sun, Oct 24, 2004 at 11:21:31AM -0500, nightfly wrote:
> Don't bother yourself with the kernel logs or playing with the
> suspend scripts as they are really unrelated to what causes the `beep'
> to sound. They are related to your hardware. 
> 
> On my IBM T40, there exists an option to turn off beep alerts  from
> the BIOS. I am not sure as to the version of the BIOS you have but i
> think IBM ought to use the same BIOS on all their laptops. 

I disabled all possible beeps in the BIOS including the suspend/resume
beep.

> As an important side note, it is normal for the thinkpad to generate
> a gentle short beep sound upon suspension. You do not hear this normally
> because of the ACPI interface Windows and most other linux distributions

Why do you say "most other linux distributions"? Is there something
different with ubuntu?

> use to manage power. Thinkpads may generate an intense series of beeps,
> those which are  not normal and indicate an error. 

I think the beep I get is similar to the one I get when I enable the
resume beep in the BIOS. But I will try again to compare them.

> This info is to the best of my knowledge, 

Thanks,
Christophe

> Nightfly

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