From: John Serafin (jps_at_pobox.com)
Date: Mon Nov 19 2001 - 16:04:56 EST
> This might not be a wise question, but I didn't get any user's manual with
> my 365X, and I'm just trying to figure out ho it works. On some function
> keys I see blue pictures, which I understand indicate that if you press Fn
> + this key, something magic happens. Fn+F3 turns the LCD off, Fn+F7
> switches between LCD and monitor, and Fn+F4 goes into kind of
> standby/suspend mode. But there are also F2, F11, F12, PgUp and PgDn, I
> press Fn + these keys and just nothing happens. Does anybody know, how do
> they work?
I don't have experience with the 365X, but on other Thinkpads running Linux,
I have had the Fn+F4 cause blinking of the standby LED but no standby.
apm -s has worked fine for me to put the Thinkpads into standby. I
always disable the automatic standby by closing the notebook cover
so that I can run long jobs with the lid closed and backlight off.
To hibernate, the Fn+F12 key almost always works, but but a proper
save2dsk.bin file must be present. On some Thinkpads, some of the
time, the hibernete process will not start unless the AC power is
not connected.
If the partition with save2dsk.bin is resized or moved, or RAM added, hibernate
will not work until a new save2dsk.bin is prepared.
The partition for save2dsk.bin must be FAT32 or FAT16 and there must be
enough contiguous free space to hold save2dsk.bin, which seems to be
about 30MB greater than RAM size. The reported free space may have to
be several hundred megabytes more because the free space may be unavoidably
fragmented. It might be that hibernate will work with a Thinkpad
hibernate partition, Linux fdisk partition type a0. I have no experience
with this and would be very interested in which Thinkpads will or will not
work with a Thinkpad hibernate partition, and what steps are involved.
When boot from DOS, the himem.sys device driver must be loaded. To create
save2dsk.bin, run phdisk /c /f
I am not certain, but it has seemed to me that hibernate under Linux will
not work until hibernate under DOS or windoze has been done.
> Oh, and just one more thing: Pressing Fn+F4 actually tries to go into standby
> mode, but it just flashes the standby LED for few seconds and nothing happens.
> In syslog I see "apm: an event queue overflowed". The same is when I close the
> cover (there is a little switch that detects if the LCD is closed or not; and
> as I suppose, closing it should also put the computer into standby mode).
> Any ideas?
-- John P. Serafin | Operating a bicycle is more like driving than riding. jps at pobox com | Operating an automobile is more like riding than driving.
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