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  From: Jont Allen <jba@research.att.com>
  To  : Stephen Rothwell <sfr@linuxcare.com>
  Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2000 20:37:49 -0500

Re: APM patch against 2.2.14/2.2.15pre6

Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> 
> Hi Jont,
> 
> Jont Allen <jba@research.att.com> writes:
> > Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> > >
> > > The patch can be found at
> > >         http://linuxcare.com.au/apm/2.2.14-APM.3.gz
> > > or
> > >         http://linuxcare.com.au/apm/2.2.15pre6-APM.1.gz
> >
> > Can you please post for us peons the proceedure for applying this patch?
> >
> > I.E.:
> > Is it only for Linux 2.2.x?
> 
> 2.2.14-APM.3.gz will apply to a clean 2.2.14 and 2.2.15pre6-APM.1.gz
> will apply to a clean 2.2.25pre6.
>
...
> 
> > can I use it with 2.0.34 (RH5.1)?
> 
> No, sorry.  If there is a BIG demand, I may port parts of
> this patch back to 2.0, but it is getting increasingly difficult
> to just keep up with 2.2 and 2.3.

I am interested in the thinkpad update. My thinkpad is flakey
in suspending (1 out of 10 suspends fail). 
It would be great if there were a fix.

Specifically:

Would the patch improve the problems with an ibm560X failing to suspend
100% of the time, or the problem that it resumes with a dead
keyboard or mouse about 5% of the time? I expect this is a BIOS
problem, or a BIOS interaction with X (Bug in X?).

I use Accelerated X because scrolling is so much faster than XFree86.

> 
> > Reference to a doc/README file discussing any of this would be great.
> 
> I will add a Documentation/apm.txt file in the next patch.
> 
> Cheers,
> Stephen
> --
> Stephen Rothwell, Open Source Project Engineer, Linuxcare, Inc.
> +61-2-62628990 tel, +61-2-62628991 fax
> sfr@linuxcare.com, http://www.linuxcare.com/

> Linuxcare. Support for the revolution.
Yea!

Thanks very much!!!

Jont
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