Nick Holloway wrote:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Charles G Waldman) writes:
> > hibernation; once it finishes loading the hibernation file, the
> > display is restored, I see on the screen, just for a brief moment,
> > whatever was displayed prior to hibernation, and think - Aha, it
> > works! - but at that instant the machine just reboots
>
> I too have a Thinkpad 755C, and see the same behaviour (even after flash
> upgrading the BIOS to the latest version available).
>
> I think this is just another example of a buggy APM BIOS. One example is
> that it reports an error code when asked to blank/unblank the screen,
> despite the operation succeeding.
>
> A theory (which I have no proof for), is that it doesn't resume in
> protected mode, so the machine just falls over. This doesn't affect
> MS Windows, as this switches back to real mode before hibernation,
> and switches back after.
>
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Try CONFIG_APM_ALLOW_INTS=y
pcmcia-cs-3.0.8
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