From: "Chuck McKinnis" <ecs-t6x@2rosenthals.com>
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Subject: Re: [eCS T60/T61] ACPI/APM support on T61
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madodel wrote:
> On my T61 with eCS 2.0 RC4 with Panorama, ACPI 3.09 works to get SMP 
> support on the dual cores, and poweroff works, but suspend does nothing. 
> What is worse is that APM.ADD does not switch the T61 into battery 
> optimized when I unplug it so the battery only lasts about 1.5 hours.  I 
> can get 3 hours out of the battery under SUSE Linux.  Does anyone have 
> suspend and/or battery optimization working on their T61?  According to 
> Eugene he has reports of the T60 having Resume/Suspend working with ACPI 
> 3.05, but no reports on the T61 other then Chuck's report of problems 
> with ACPI 3.08 but he makes no mention of battery time, just problems 
> with the Beer battery widget which works fine here.
> 
> Mark.

Welcome to the crowd.  Do you have a 100 ft extension cord handy? :)

I am running mine with APM disabled.  I am not sure they will ever get 
this one fixed.  I seriously doubt if IBM ever tested SMP kernels with 
APM.  Servers were not supposed to go to sleep.

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Chuck McKinnis
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505-286-3191

Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it 
shall be opened unto you: For every one that asketh receiveth; and he 
that seeketh findeth; Matthew 7:7