FC3 and ThinkPad T41 - FINALLY SOLVED

[Harry Hoffman]

Chris,

Bummer about the sound... you don't have the hardware mute on do you? 
(sorry if this is an obvious question). I had to unmute everything in 
the volume control and then go back and remute things one at a time.

I have suspend to ram working. I found a website documenting it all but 
can't find the link right now.

Essentially what you need to do is create a few files in /etc/acpi/events

$cat  lid.conf

event=button/lid
action=/usr/local/bin/t41-suspend.sh

$cat shutdown.conf

event=button/power.*
action=/sbin/shutdown -h now

$cat lid.conf

event=button/lid
action=/usr/local/bin/t41-suspend.sh


$cat /usr/lib/bin/t41-suspend.sh

#!/bin/bash
echo 3 > /proc/acpi/sleep && /sbin/hwclock --hctosys


And if you are running Gnome and have the battery monitor right click on 
the battery and select preferences

change the suspend command to be:
sudo /usr/local/bin/t41-suspend.sh

Then run visudo and add the following:
hhoffman        ALL= NOPASSWD: /usr/local/bin/t41-suspend.sh

Well, use your username that is.

HTH,
Harry



Chris Ruprecht wrote:
> Harry,
> 
> On Tuesday 01 February 2005 21:49, Harry Hoffman wrote:
> 
>>Chris,
>>
>>Awesome! glad to hear it was solvable. What's the problem you are having
>>with alsamixer?
> 
> 
> The problem is that there is no sound. There is a little trick that some 
> people have suggested: open alsamixer and set Head Phone Jack Sense  and Line 
> Jack Sense to 'Mute'. But that hasn't made a different.
> system-config-soundcard has detected the card but when I click the 'Play Test 
> Sound' button, there is only silence. Volume level is about 3/4 up.
> 
> I read somewhere that this is an unsolved issue in Thinkpads. Another unsolved 
> issue seems to be, that I can't get the machine to sleep. It worked once, 
> only once, but when I woke it up again, it went to shut itself down (clean). 
> This is one area where I must say, Apple did a great job with OS X and their 
> Powerbooks. My powerbook goes to sleep within less than a second and wake up 
> is instant.
> 
> Best regards,
> Chris
> 
> PS. Trying sound from KDE instead of GNOME - same (no) result.
>