Thinkpad T43p suspend...

[Allie D.]

Actually it works great on OpenBSD...the only reason I use Ubuntu is for
virtualbox and great plugin support in Firefox. If I could get those in
OpenBSD I'd go back in a heartbeat just because it suspends so well on any
thinkpad.
-- 
~Allie D.


On Wed, January 23, 2008 12:57, Sean Carolan wrote:
> Joachim Schrod wrote:
>> Allie Daneman wrote:
>>> Does anyone have a Thinkpad t43p that they can suspend by hand or by
>>> closing the lid ? I've looked around and can't find any info on setting
>>> it up. It attempts to suspend (sleep light blinks) but it never
>>> actually
>>> sleeps.
>
> Your pain is shared by many other Ubuntu users, myself included.  Look at
> this
> bug list!
>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-kernel-acpi
>
> I also have a T43 running Ubuntu Feisty, and it performs *miserably* with
> acpi
> suspend and/or hibernate.  It will either not suspend at all, or if it
> does it
> simply hangs when you try to wake it up.
>
> I have *never* seen ACPI suspend and hibernate work correctly on any
> Windows
> or Linux system with any combination of hardware.  The only system I've
> used
> that actually worked the way it should every time is my wife's MacBook
> Pro.
> Close the lid - it sleeps!  Open the lid - wakes right up in a few
> seconds.
>
> Why it is so hard to implement in Linux is beyond me, I thought acpi was a
> well documented standard.  Fortunately my job doesn't require me to be on
> the
> road with a laptop very often, but if it did I'd switch to Mac laptop in a
> heartbeat just to have this (IMHO) basic feature.
>
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