apm sleep 2.6.6-1.422 (and 2.6.5-1.358) on ThinkPad A22p (ATI R128)

[Ed Hill]

Hi folks,

First, a big thanks to all for FC2--its running rather nicely on my
ThinkPad A22p.

The only big complaint so far is the inability to sleep with either ACPI
or APM.  Using ACPI has exposed some serious problems with ksoftirqd
when certain pcmcia cards are used so I've disabled ACPI with the
"acpi=off" kernel parameter.

Previously, with Red Hat 7.2/7.3/8/9, the apm suspend-to-RAM
functionality worked well.  Now, with both 2.6.6-1.422 and 2.6.5-1.358,
I'm unable to suspend even after killing X and rmmod-ing all the sound,
USB, and pcmcia kernel modules.  I've tried suspending with both "apm
-s" and by closing the lid.  In both cases, I get two "beeps" where one
is the usual about-to-suspend beep and the second sounds like an error
beep.

The logs suggest that there are no problems (pls see below) with the
suspend/resume cycles but the sounds coming from the laptop suggest
otherwise.  Apparently, the CPU and CPU fan keep running.

Any help or suggestions would be appreciated!

thanks,
Ed

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Jun  8 13:18:54 localhost apmd[1315]: System Suspend
Jun  8 13:19:04 localhost kernel: Disabled Privacy Extensions on device
022deac0(lo)
Jun  8 13:19:06 localhost apmd[1315]: Normal Resume after 00:00:12 (100%
unknown) AC power
Jun  8 13:19:39 localhost network: Shutting down loopback interface: 
succeeded
Jun  8 13:19:40 localhost apmd[1315]: User Suspend
Jun  8 13:19:48 localhost kernel: Disabled Privacy Extensions on device
022deac0(lo)
Jun  8 13:19:49 localhost apmd[1315]: Normal Resume after 00:00:09 (100%
unknown) AC power

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