> Dexter Ang wrote:
>> > Hey folks,
>> >
>> > As the last version of Fedora I've used was FC2, I'm wondering
about
>> > the current 'condition' of FC3. I'm using a Thinkpad T30. Going
>> > through the archives, I didn't really see any info regarding ACPI
>> > status.
>> >
>> > Suspend -to-disk and -to-ram works under Ubuntu Hoary. Of course they
>> > have that Thinkpad power-drain bug on S3. But suspend-to-disk works
>> > really well. So would a fully-updated FC3 work well with ACPI events?
>> >
>> > I'm more looking for personal experiences, as searching around shows
>> > that most people just kept using APM, it seems.
>
>
>
> Dex,
>
> Check out ThinkWiki (
http://www.thinkwiki.org/ThinkWiki) and Volker
> Braun's T-41 site.
> (
http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~vbraun/computing/T41/kernel.html) He's got a
> link to his kernel repository there. The more recent ones (2.6.11-13)
> get ACPI working just fine on my T40. Depending on the graphics chipset
> in your T30, you might have to recompile from the SRPM after editing a
> file. (Write me directly if you need to recompile and I'll help you.)
>
> pete
>
ACPI works fine on my 3 year old Toshiba Satellite using FC3 out of the box.
Not so well on my older Gateway Solos. They run into a year 2000 failure.
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