On Sat, 2003-01-25 at 17:06, B Lauber wrote: > Sony claims that VAIO systems are not designed for Linux, but I know for a > fact that my system worked just fine w/ Mandrake 8.0. If I can see anything > in 9.1, I would like to see a modification for APM so that my system is able > to suspend again.
Just add "acpi=off" to the append line in lilo.conf (or the configuration file for whatever bootloader you use :>). Then you'll get APM. > Here's what I know as of now: the confusion that causes the system to > lock has something to do w/ the keyboard and the system's fan (I have a > battery that causes the fan to studder at times; whenever it studders, the > keyboard studders as well. Furthermore, when the system recovers from a > suspend, it will work for about 5 seconds until the fan reactivates.). My > guess is that the keyboard is wrongly detected and registered because > between Mandrake versions 8.0 and 8.2 it has lost support for the windows > keys (in 8.0, pushing the windows key would make the K menu pop up). > I will have more information soon -- I'm going to put 8.0 back onto my > system and check the irq's of the keyboard and such. ACPI works very well on my C1XD; suspend doesn't seem to work, however. (At least not with "cat 3 > /proc/acpi/sleep", which is the only method I've heard of to invoke a suspend under ACPI. -- adamw
