Hi, Laptop is a Sony PCG-F801. I have APM compiled in. APM generally works fine: Using the keyboard, I can suspend to RAM and it comes back up reliably. I don't suspend to disk since I have erased all partitions when I wiped Windows (had no clue, unfortunately) and I believe there was a supspend-partition. apm -[s|S] work well on command line, too. However, when I use gkrellm's apm monitor or gnome's battery applet (both the old and the new), the laptop freezes soon after starting of these apps (I suspect when they first access apm info (cat /proc/apm does no harm, though, unsurprisingly)). I can't even ssh in, so I suspect the kernel hangs.
Any ideas? BTW, a funny thing happened to me when I wanted to register the laptop online on Sony's Vaio site. It didn't work, so I sent an email to support, saying that I can't register. Told them that I use Linux/Mozilla, and asked if that's a known prob. The next day I got a replay, saying, paraphrased "We don't support that OS. If the hardware is damaged through that OS, you're on your own. Also we have no programs to download for that OS" and so on, in unfriendly tone for lines and lines. I asked back if they have gone crazy, it works fine, thank you and I don't want to download anything. Just want to register the darn thing like any other customer. Next day I got a reply: "We apologize for the autoreply". I guess they have a filter like "if body contains linux|bsd then reply 'f**k off'". -- I did not vote for the Austrian government
