Any success with Lenovo T60

[YAMAMOTO, Taku]

On Thu, 28 May 2009 18:52:08 +0900
Takanori Watanabe <takawata at init-main.com> wrote:

> In message <20090528184537.b2ac4798.taku at tackymt.homeip.net>, "YAMAMOTO, Taku" 
> wrote:
> >Hi Vladimir,
> >
> >I have an X60 running 8.0-current/i386 as of Apr. 29, 2009
> >which can successfully suspend and resume, though things may be a bit
> >different from your case.
> >
> >There were a couple of pitfalls which I ran into:
> >
> > 0. Pristine kernels for i386 SMP don't support the resume yet.
> >    We can either use amd64 ones, stick on i386 UP kernels or apply
> >    unofficial patch floating around.
> >
> > 1. DO NOT DISABLE the built-in modem! (It took almost 2 weeks to identify!)
> >    Disabling it ends up with hanging machine on resume.
> >
> > 2. Disable the USB while suspending; otherwise NMI parity error occurs
> >    on resume. (usb2 stack only; the old USB stack didn't have this problem)
> >    In rc.suspend (the magic to turn the root hubs off):
> >	usbconfig -a 1 set_config 255
> >    In rc.resume (the magic to turn the root hubs on again):
> >	usbconfig -a 1 set_config 0
> >
> 
> Is the SMP/i386 patch applied cleanly? 
> Lazy author does not tried that since then.

No, it requires slight modifications to apply, but that's it.
Would it be worth to have it available somewhere?


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