Renat Lumpau

Huge thanks to Ben Schwartz who suggested gnome-power-manager. After reverting to gentoo-sources (I was trying suspend2-sources all along) and installing gnome-power-manager, suspending and hibernating just works!

Of course, there's a glitch. I'm using XFCE, and I discovered that all GTK theme info is lost on hibernate. The culprit is xfce-mcs-manager, which apparently must be run after restarting ALSA (really not sure why). I'm hoping that the gnome-power-manager folks will add suspend/resume hooks soon (they are working on it).

Now excuse me, I gotta go suspend.

I got a couple of useful suggestions for my suspend/resume problem. For a while, it looked like s2ram was going to fix it, until I discovered that on every other resume the system hardlocks and the screen starts turning all kinds of colors. Pretty, but useless.

I thought this was an issue with fglrx, so I tried vesa. No dice. Oh, I also ran into a lovely image corruption bug at 1400x1050, which I see has already been reported.

So, suspend still doesn't work. Fabulous.

I give up. For the life of me, I can't get any kind of suspend/resume working on my Thinkpad T60p. It's tantalizingly close: hibernate-ram wakes up but the screen remains blank, and hibernate is also almost there, but not quite.

If you have any suggestions on how to get it working, pretty please let me know.

Yesterday I noticed that the battery in my T60p wouldn't charge; the battery indicator kept blinking yellow. I called IBM/Lenovo and spent less than 10 minutes on the phone with a very pleasant rep in Atlanta, GA, who (a) informed me that my battery was covered by the original warranty, b) said that I should be getting a replacement battery in 3-5 days, and (c) told me an entertaining customer support story about an earlier caller who didn't bother being polite and ended up on an "extended hold."

I was pleasantly surprised today when a got a package from IBM. Turns out they overnighted the replacement battery to me. I suspect their prompt attention is at least partly due to the fact that I bought my laptop through my school which has a partnership with Lenovo.

Sometimes they get it right. Well done Lenovo.