Thinkpad, Thinkpad, Thinkpad

[Eric S. Raymond]

Dax Kelson <dax at gurulabs.com>:
> With FC5, my Thinkpad T42p does suspend/resume reliably after adding the
> kernel parameter "acpi_sleep=s3_bios" to my grub.conf.  

Hah!   Works on an X40 as well. I'll add this workaround to the bug I entered;
also at my HOWTO, <http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/Fedora-Core-on-Thinkpad-X40/>.
 
> Did you check out the information on the ThinkWiki (that is a *awesome*
> resource for Linux using ThinkPad owners)?
> 
> In particular:
> 
> http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/How_to_make_ACPI_work

Yes, that's how I developed the recipe I used to publish in my HOWTO for FC4.
The recipe didn't work for FC5, however, apparently because with the 
in-kernel support the suspend/resume events no longer go through acpid.

How did you make lid close do a suspend as it should?  
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		<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>