Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 15 Dec 1999 12:09:14 -0500 | From | Richard Guy Briggs <> | Subject | NEC VERSA 6030X laptop suspend problems after BIOS upgrade |
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Hi,
I have posted this question to the APMD list and go no useful response, so in some frustration, I post it here for some suggestions and ideas how to solve this problem.
I have a NEC VERSA 6030X P133 laptop which *almost worked perfectly* with apmd-3.0beta5, driver version 1.9.
Since then, it has been into the shop for a warranty motherboard and I/O board ECO to correct a suspected cold solder problem with the PCMCIA cardcage. The BIOS was updated in the process to 2.00.16 and some things have broken.
Originally, all of the apm functions in the BIOS worked with the exception of save to file, which would be nice, but I can manage without. (If anyone can point to a utility that can format a save-to-disk partition that would be most helpful.)
Now, BIOS settings of standby mode power for some peripherals causes a complete lockup of the machine. This problem I can live with by simply preventing standby mode for those peripherals.
The really big problem is: whenever it comes out of suspend, the caps lock and scroll lock keyboard indicators flash alternately for about 30 seconds and the keyoard locks up, restarting the flashing upon any keystroke *except* <shift> or <fn>. This latter problem sounds like a software issue rather than hardware, but it has been suggested that it could be a lack of keyboard CPU reset at the appropriate time now, or perhaps previously.
First, I would like any hints as to whether this is the keyboard controller flashing at me (ie. hardware) or if it is Linux that is confused and flashing the keyboard indicators. I would strongly suspect it is Linux since I am able to use <fn> to switch CRT/LCD, toggle the power saving features, change the speaker volume, etc.
I am running RH6.0, 2.2.12 kernel with PCMCIA and FreeS/WAN compiled into the kernel.
This is a real pain in the butt, even with two batteries installed to avoid going into suspend and sounds like it should be relatively easy to fix, if I knew where to look...
I am able to gracefully shutdown the system with a serial console and associated getty or by inserting an ethernet card, having it automatically configure itself on PCMCIA init and log in via SSH.
Any hints?
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