Thinkpad R40 apm fun on STABLE

[Lukas Ertl]

On Fri, 13 Jun 2003, Michael Collette wrote:

> It's been putting up a bit of a fight with FreeBSD.  The biggest of my
> glitches seems to be apm.  Oh sure, it'll go to sleep.  What it won't do is
> wake up properly.  Upon waking you can see the LCD backlight kick on, a
> little blinking on the HD light, then the HD light goes solid on.  At this
> point the only recovery is a forced power down.

Are you sure the machine is locked up? Eventually, the laptop has hit a
panic and the HD light just indicates that a core dump is written :-)

regards,
le

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