more: i just went to the t-pad 240 sites on ken harker's site (hey, i really do *love* this thing, and it's fun to read of other people's experiences. besides, i write for a living and though i have it running a really tuned suse 7.2 that i have no plans to upgrade -- particularly in that i have the lucent winmodem working -- textmaker is really fast even on its dinky celeron 366 and 192 megs of memory), and i found something that might be pertinent.
on http://truffula.net/~forrest/tp240.shtml i found this: APM: apm works great on this laptop. i've left the thinkpad bios in it's default settings, and i just compiled my kernel with the following settings. ignore user suspend = no enable pm at boot time = yes make cpu idle calls when idle = yes enable console blanking = no <<<<<<<<<<NOTE THIS! rtc stores time in GMT = no allow interupts during apm bios calls = yes use real mode apm bios call to power off = yes now, this is an entirely different machine from a different era -- three or four years old -- but ibm is circumspect about changes (i wonder if, were i to yank the hard drive entirely, it would boot to basica in rom?). and of course the gmt thing is taste, not function. no idea if this is of any use or, if it is, whether there is a boot param that can be passed so as to avoid a kernel recompile. the fact that linux tends to tell the bios to go pound sand early in the boot is to be remembered, too, though i suppose there is the possibility of dueling switches. -- dep _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://smtp.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
