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Paul Hewlett wrote:
On Tuesday 07 December 2004 09:37, Tim Nicholson wrote:
Paul Hewlett wrote:
SuSE 9.1 & 9.2 come with special Thinkpad BIOS programs. One is called 'tpctl'. A graphical version is 'configure-thinkpad'. There is also a special kernel module 'km_tpctl'.
First off, I am using 9.1 on a Thinkpad 600 that has a faulty battery. (Evidently the battery electronics were badly designed on these models - something IBM never admitted to but that is another story)
[snip] I boot with acpi=off on the kernel commandline. dmesg reveals that APM is initialized.
The conclusion I am rapidly coming to is that the apm part of powersaved is not working properly :(
Something is definitely not right. Have you looked at tpctl.sourceforge.net ?
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