From: "Lewis G Rosenthal" Received: from [192.168.100.201] (account lgrosenthal HELO [10.78.171.96]) by 2rosenthals.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.1.16) with ESMTPSA id 1925339 for ecs-t6x@2rosenthals.com; Thu, 12 Jun 2008 18:05:42 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: SnapperMail 2.3.7.01 by Snapperfish To: "eCS ThinkPad T60/61 Mailing List" Subject: Re: [eCS T60/T61] ACPI/APM support on T61 Message-ID: <8543-SnapperMsg4EDDFFFDC4774E34@[10.78.171.96]> In-Reply-To: References: Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 17:57:13 -0400 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit On Thu, 12 Jun 2008 13:45:48 -0400 "madodel" wrote: >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. > >While browsing the closed ACPI tickets I ran across Lewis's report of >working Suspend on his T61. I made the changes he suggested and Suspend >actually works now. As I just read your email, I thought, "didn't I get that working somehow?" ;-) >Only works using the Suspend menu item off of XCenter, >not the Fn+F4 keys or closing the lid. Also only resumes using the power >button (on my T42p Fn+F4 resumed). But it works. :-) > Yes, this is as far as we've come. It seems that the blasted function keys are a whole (I almost wrote "hole," which would be almost as apropos) other beast. >x:\CONFIG.SYS: > PSD=ACPI.PSD /SMP /R /VBE /APIC > BASEDEV=APM.ADD > RUN=C:\OS2\ACPIDAEMON.EXE > RUN=C:\ECS\SYSTEM\GENMAC\DRIVER\HELPERW.EXE > >D:\MPTN\ETC\ACPID.CFG: > [ACPID] > LID = suspend > PowerButton = Off > SleepState = S3 > IdleState = C2 > MaxThrl = 0 > MinThrl = 0 > LogScreen = 0 > ExtraKernelHLT = No > > >Still only getting 1.5 hours from the battery though. :-( I have created >a new ticket on the ACPI Trac - http://svn.netlabs.org/acpi/ticket/252 Can >anyone else add to this please. According to Eugene we need 20+ additional >users to the ticket for them to solve the problem. > As soon as I get back up to NY, I'll have a look at Diane's and see what I'm using. She uses the machine tethered to power 99.9% of the time, so I'm not even sure of battery life (6-cell). ___ Lewis G Rosenthal Rosenthal & Rosenthal, LLC Sent with SnapperMail