[wplug] suspend on laptops.

[Vanco, Donald]

bgtrio at yahoo.com wrote:
> Note that on recent Dells installing APM will do jack nothing.
> 
> My inspiron 2650C requires ACPI, which I have yet to make work.
	You can install both APM and ACPI - APM will try to take precedence,
failing that ACPI will load.  On RH OSes you'll need to manually add ACPI
support.  If the system locks with both just boot with apm=off and fix it
when it's back up.


> I can't seem to make my self-compiled kernels to boot properly on
> redhat 8/9 (they always complain about not being able to mount the
> root partition) so I haven't been able to even attempt to use acpi
> properly. 
> 
> Not sure about the 1100 though.
> 
> But if anyone else out there has a 2650 or similar acpi-only dell,
> please let me know so we can compare notes (well, really so I can
> crib your notes :)

	I was able to compile ACPI into the kernel on my Inspiron 5100 with
the options for "CONFIG_ACPI_*" pretty much all set to y (except for
HT_ONLY) and completely turn off APM.
(I get errors about locating module ds - but this system has been hammered
so the corruption likely extends across my disk as I never used to get any
errors)  I don't think my system can take advantage of all of the options
though...

Don




> On Fri, 13 Jun 2003, Eric C. Cooper wrote:
> 
>> On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 12:08:21PM -0400, Russ Schneider wrote:
>>> John Harrold wrote:
>>> 
>>>> i have a friend who has a laptop (dell inspiron 1100) that she
>>>> wants to be able to suspend under linux.
>>> 
>>> man xset
>> 
>> Install the apmd package (and do "man apm").