[Lancaster] t21 with suse 9.1 question

[Ken Hough]

Chistoph,

I've checked out how my Thinkpad T21 behaves when I close the lid. It 
does not seem to go into suspend/hibernation. Only the screen is turned off.

I don't know yet if this is a limitation of the ACPI system (BIOS or 
Linux) or if there's something that I need to set up. The SuSE 
Professional v9.1 Reference manual does mention that not all functions 
are yet fully functional.

I'll explore this further in due course.

BTW, do you have a full user manual for the T21? As I obtained my 
machine 2nd hand, this was missing. I've not been able to find anything 
more than brief/overall descriptions via the IBM web site. If you do 
have the manual, please will you look for an identifying code or part 
number that I could use to refer it.

Thanks

Ken Hough

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Ken Hough wrote:
> 
> Christoph Lehmann wrote:
> 
>> Hi Ken
>>
>> I also have a t21 with 9.1 suse running. what I would like to ask you:
>> does standby work correctly for you (eg. when you close the lid). i have
>> apm (acpi = off), but standby doesn't work.
>>
>> please, could you tell me, how you got it to work?
>>
>> many thanks and best regards from switzerland
>>
>> christoph
> 
> 
> Hi Christoph,
> 
> It seems that the Lancaster LUG has now gone international. Good to hear 
> from you. It's good also to hear from another SuSE user. Most of the 
> group seem to use Debian or possibly Mandrake. I'm gradually coming to 
> understand Debian, but for me, SuSE is much more fun. Maybe YAST is too 
> much of a cultural step for them (chuckle -- that should get some 
> reaction).
> 
> The answer to your question is that I don't know at the moment. I always 
> shut down before closing the lid. I will check it out.
> 
> I'm running ACPI as this is more modern then APM and provides more 
> information. ACPI seems to work well on the Thinkpad T21. I use 'akpi' 
> (in package 'pmtools' as far as I can remember) to access the ACPI 
> information. This gives info' about battery state, power consumption, 
> CPU temperature and quite a lot more.
> 
> I have tried APM which did work, but is limited compared with ACPI. I 
> did note that when running APM, 'xosview' showed an additional line 
> relating to battery capacity which is not present when running ACPI.
> 
> I obtained my T21 second hand and initially had probelms with both APM 
> and ACPI. This was caused by an old/faulty battery. A replacement 
> immediately solved all problems.
> 
> The T21 is a good laptop. I guess that like me, you managed to get both 
> the network card and (Lucent) modem configured easily under SuSE. I've 
> also got my USB2 flatbed scanner working 100%. It's a shame about the 
> quality of the sound system, but that's a hardware limitation.
> 
> Will try to get back to you when I've checked if closing the lid causes 
> the PC to enter standby mode.
> 
> Regards
> 
> 
> Ken Hough
> 
> 
> 
> 
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