On Wed, 9 Aug 2006, Nigel Cunningham wrote: > Hi. > > On Wednesday 09 August 2006 09:35, Lee Revell wrote: > > On Tue, 2006-08-08 at 19:31 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: > > > On Wed, 9 Aug 2006, Nigel Cunningham wrote: > > > > The problem will be ACPI related, not particular to swsusp or Suspend2, > > > > which is why you're seeing it with both implementations. I would > > > > suggest that you contact the ACPI guys, and also look to see whether > > > > there is a bios update available and/or a DSDT override for your > > > > machine. The later will help if the problem is with your particular > > > > machine's ACPI support, the former if it's a more general ACPI issue. > > > > > > Thanks for the response Nigel, > > > > > > There does exist a recent bios update for this machine: > > > > > > http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?sitestyle=lenovo&l > > >ndocid=MIGR-58127 > > > > > > Hmm, it requires windows, and I've already wiped out that partition. I > > > did a search but it seems really scary to update the BIOS via Linux. > > > > > > Anyone else out there have a Thinkpad G41 and has successfully upgraded > > > their BIOS? > > > > I would just report it to the ACPI people. It's a bug if Linux does not > > work with the same BIOS + DSDT that the other OS works on. > > True. I was assuming (perhaps wrongly?) that Steven is interested in both > getting the bug fixed and being able to hibernate while he waits for the ACPI > guys to achieve bug-for-bug compatibility with M$; hence suggesting doing > both. > I would prefer to do both, but I really can't tell you if the $OTHER_OS works or not. I booted it once with this machine, and that was only to register it with IBM. ;) After that, I slapped in my Debian install CD and the rest is history. -- Steve
