Thinkpad R40 apm fun on STABLE

[Michael Collette]

Lukas Ertl wrote:

> 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
>> thi=
> s
>> 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

I'm not entirely sure.  The light is lit, but I can't hear the drive spinning.  
Attempting to toggle caps lock has no effect, usually a pretty good lockup 
indicator.  No keystrokes impact anything.  Also, I've left it alone for 
upwards of 20 minutes without it recovering.

Initially I was thinking along the same lines as you're suggesting here.

Later on,
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