FC3 and ThinkPad T41 - FINALLY SOLVED (well, sorta)

[Chris Ruprecht]

Hi Harry,

I tryied this. The suspend seems to work, but when it wakes up, it
looses the mouse on USB.

Traded one evil for another.

I'm using the trackpad mouse right now, until I can reboot. I also
installed the latest kernel (760) but there is still no sound.

Thanks for the help,
Chris


On Wed, 2005-02-02 at 12:03 -0500, Harry Hoffman wrote:
> 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.
> > 
> 
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chris ruprecht - network grunt and bit pusher extraordinaíre