Robert Smith wrote:
Assuming you don't have a partition set up for saving data through
machine "Hibernation," I would guess that by "sleep" you mean suspend.
Yes, that must be it. I now remember that I had firstly set a special
partition for hibernation mode, that was about six years ago, but this
soon disappeared when I upgraded from RedHat 6.0 to RedHat 7.2, since I
forgot to do this. So, my sleep modes must have been 'suspend', even
though I must precise that such a suspend mode let me more than a week
of autonomy on battery.
Have you tried issuing the command (as Root) "apm -s"? What does this
do? If it puts the machine into suspense, then you must relink that
command with the Fn-F4 key press.
#apm -s
No APM support in kernel
'man apm' does provide a man page for 'apm', as if it was implemented. I
have checked /var/log/messages and /var/log/syslog for the chain of
characters 'apm', and it was absent from both files.
However, my system hosts a number of files concerning "apm", as follows :
localhost:/var/log# find / | grep apm
/usr/include/linux/apm_bios.h
/usr/include/asm/mach-default/apm.h
/usr/include/asm-i486/mach-default/apm.h
/usr/lib/libapm.so.1
/usr/lib/libapm.so.1.0.0
/usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/apm_drv.so
/usr/sbin/apmd
/usr/bin/apmsleep
/usr/bin/apm
/usr/share/man/man4/apm.4.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/apm_available.1
/usr/share/man/man1/apm.1
/usr/share/man/man1/apmsleep.1
/usr/share/man/man8/apmd.8.gz
/usr/share/man/fr/man1/apmsleep.1.gz
/usr/share/apmd
/usr/share/apmd/apmd_proxy.conf
/usr/share/doc/apmd
/usr/share/doc/apmd/README.Debian
/usr/share/doc/apmd/changelog.gz
/usr/share/doc/apmd/changelog.Debian.gz
/usr/share/doc/apmd/apmsleep.README
/usr/share/doc/apmd/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/apmd/README
/usr/share/doc/apmd/copyright
/usr/share/doc/xserver-xorg-video-apm
/usr/share/doc/xserver-xorg-video-apm/changelog.Debian.gz
/usr/share/doc/xserver-xorg-video-apm/copyright
/usr/share/doc/libapm1
/usr/share/doc/libapm1/changelog.gz
/usr/share/doc/libapm1/changelog.Debian.gz
/usr/share/doc/libapm1/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/libapm1/copyright
/etc/init.d/apmd
/etc/rc2.d/S20apmd
/etc/rc4.d/S20apmd
/etc/rc6.d/K20apmd
/etc/rc1.d/K20apmd
/etc/default/apmd
/etc/rc3.d/S20apmd
/etc/apm
/etc/apm/event.d
/etc/apm/event.d/20hdparm
/etc/apm/event.d/anacron
/etc/apm/apmd_proxy
/etc/apm/suspend.d
/etc/apm/suspend.d/99hwclock
/etc/apm/suspend.d/20ifplugd
/etc/apm/scripts.d
/etc/apm/scripts.d/hwclock
/etc/apm/scripts.d/ifplugd
/etc/apm/other.d
/etc/apm/other.d/50ifplugd
/etc/apm/resume.d
/etc/apm/resume.d/80ifplugd
/etc/apm/resume.d/00hwclock
/etc/rc0.d/K20apmd
/etc/logcheck/ignore.d.paranoid/apmd
/etc/rc5.d/S20apmd
/var/lib/dpkg/info/xserver-xorg-video-apm.md5sums
/var/lib/dpkg/info/apmd.postinst
/var/lib/dpkg/info/libapm1.preinst
/var/lib/dpkg/info/libapm1.md5sums
/var/lib/dpkg/info/libapm1.postrm
/var/lib/dpkg/info/apmd.prerm
/var/lib/dpkg/info/apmd.postrm
/var/lib/dpkg/info/libapm1.postinst
/var/lib/dpkg/info/libapm1.list
/var/lib/dpkg/info/apmd.list
/var/lib/dpkg/info/libapm1.prerm
/var/lib/dpkg/info/apmd.md5sums
/var/lib/dpkg/info/xserver-xorg-video-apm.list
/var/lib/dpkg/info/libapm1.shlibs
/var/lib/dpkg/info/apmd.preinst
/var/lib/dpkg/info/apmd.conffiles
/var/cache/apt/archives/xserver-xorg-video-apm_1%3a1.1.1-3_i386.deb
/var/cache/apt/archives/libapm1_3.2.2-8.1_i386.deb
/var/cache/apt/archives/apmd_3.2.2-8.1_i386.deb
/lib/modules/2.6.18-6-686/kernel/drivers/net/arcnet/capmode.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.18-6-686/kernel/arch/i386/kernel/apm.ko
/dev/.static/dev/apm_bios
/sbin/apm_available
So, I don't know why apm is not installed. I will take some time reading
about conffiles which I have just discovered in listing this.
I remember reading something about how this function might not work on
600s if the floppy disk drive's driver were not loaded. Could this be
your problem in a day and age where floppies are almost unheard of?
I have never known such problem with my TP600. Suspend mode or something
similar, did function perfectly for years, without floppy driver (I
don't even know where to find that thing now :))
Rob Smith
"Linux, because software, like people, should be allowed to exist in
an open, sharing community, and not kept contained by corporate greed!"
--- On *Mon, 11/10/08, Bernard /<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>/* wrote:
From: Bernard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: problem with sleep modes etc.. on a ThinkPad600 with Etch
To: [email protected]
Date: Monday, November 10, 2008, 11:26 AM
Hi to Everyone,
The laptops interrupts (is this the right word ?) - which had worked
perfectly well for many years on my ThinkPad 600 under RedHat 7.2 - do
not operate under Debian Etch. Nothing shuts down or goes to sleep
when I close the lid, neither the video nor the hard disk (I can hear
its noise) ; I am not sure whether the fan works or not ; nothing goes
to sleep after a while even when the system is powered on battery...
if I press Fn+F4 on the keyboard (sleep icon), the system indeed goes
to sleep, but then there is no way I can awaken it ... and a
CTRL-ALT-DEL does nothing, same if pressing the OFF switch... the only
way to get out of this is to unplug AC power AND remove battery
for a few seconds, then put it back and start again. I now have to
shutdown this laptop everyday, even several times a day, while, when
it ran under RedHat 7.2, I practically never shut it down, just closed
the lid.
If someone wishes to see the /var/log/messages generated by my laptop
system during last boot, this is being displayed at the following
address.
http://www.teaser.fr/~bdebreil/log_messages
Thanks in advance for any shared experience or advice so as to get
that old laptop operate as it should.
Bernard
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