Thinkpads Forum

Posted: **Wed Feb 15, 2006 11:35 am**

Hi folks,
I installed slackware 10.2 and after the Installation I activated the apm- mode. But it doesn't work on my laptop its a thinkpad 600E.
So when i press the FN-F4 key it goes into standby, but when I wake him the disply is not fully used, I want to say that it doesn't show me the right colours
the colours are more dull and when i restart the laptop the colours are not grey! can anyone help me? Thanks

Posted: **Wed Feb 15, 2006 6:25 pm**

Hello

Not sure if you've looked at this site yet: http://www.linux-on-laptops.com/ibm.html

Lists installation notes of various linux distributions on a number of ThinkPads.

Posted: **Wed Feb 15, 2006 7:54 pm**

Another site to look at would be ThinkWiki.org ; HTH

Posted: **Mon Feb 20, 2006 1:49 pm**

ulix wrote:Hi folks,
I installed slackware 10.2 and after the Installation I activated the apm- mode. But it doesn't work on my laptop its a thinkpad 600E.
So when i press the FN-F4 key it goes into standby, but when I wake him the disply is not fully used, I want to say that it doesn't show me the right colours
the colours are more dull and when i restart the laptop the colours are not grey! can anyone help me? Thanks

To get the best from Slackware I would recommend upgrading to the 2.6 kernel to be found on the second install CD. This eases life on a laptop considerably.

THE place for Slackware help though is http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions ... y.php?f=14

Regards

dkpw

Posted: **Mon Feb 27, 2006 5:56 am**

Hi,
grrr.....

Nothing work on the Thinkpad 600E! And now, I installed the 2.6 kernel testing the mouse doesn't react!!!
Can you help?
cheers

Posted: **Mon Feb 27, 2006 6:29 am**

ulix wrote:Hi,
grrr..... Nothing work on the Thinkpad 600E! And now, I installed the 2.6 kernel testing the mouse doesn't react!!!
Can you help?
cheers

If your mouse is not working, presumably under KDE you need to look at your xorg.conf file, which lives in /etc/X11/.

This is created and edited by running the following command, xorgconfig.

This page gives full details of what it does: http://www.slackware.com/config/x.php

Here is mouse section of my xorg.conf. The ZAxis line allows scrolling on my simple MS Wheelmouse, yours may well be different depending on the mouse connection and the number of buttons etc.

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# The available mouse protocols types that you can set below are:
#    Auto BusMouse GlidePoint GlidePointPS/2 IntelliMouse IMPS/2
#    Logitech Microsoft MMHitTab MMSeries Mouseman MouseManPlusPS/2
#    MouseSystems NetMousePS/2 NetScrollPS/2 OSMouse PS/2 SysMouse
#    ThinkingMouse ThinkingMousePS/2 Xqueue
    Option "Protocol"    "IMPS/2"
    Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"

Running through the options in the xorgconfig script should get your mouse working, although I would strongly recommend that you take a back up of your current xorg.conf file as it can be quite easy to misconfigure your display settings and end up with a non-functioning X, and you then have to go through the entire process again.

Regards,

dkpw

Posted: **Thu Mar 02, 2006 7:14 am**

IT works.!
but not the apm? How to activate this on the 2.6 kernel?
thanks

Posted: **Thu Mar 02, 2006 8:28 am**

ACPI and APM are both power management utilities, with APM being much older and slowly being superceded by ACPI. Older machines (pre 1998) usually don't support ACPI, and are disabled during bootime by linux.

That's what I posted in another forum. I have a 600e running slackware and have ACPI fully working, seems you do too. With that being said, why do you want to have APM enabled too?

I wouldn't recommend that.

Posted: **Thu Mar 02, 2006 9:04 am**

ulix wrote:IT works.!
but not the apm? How to activate this on the 2.6 kernel?
thanks

Great to hear you have a scrolling mouse!

Type this command

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dmesg | grep -i acpi

and post the output. That will tell whether you have ACPI functioning or not. I've recently upgraded my kernel to a hand rolled one and included the ACPI modules, otherwise I could have confirmed that ACPI is built in to the 2.6.13 kernel in testing. You could also have a look in the .config file in /usr/src/linux-2.6.13 to see whether the module is compiled.

Regards,

dkpw

Posted: **Sat Mar 04, 2006 7:32 am**

Hi,
I want to activate apm because acpi destroy the hardware!

http://pepper.linuxfocus.org/~guido/gentoo-tp600e/

Further investigation showed that this is because of a BIOS bug in the 600e. NEVER ever use ACPI with the 600e. Disable all ACPI in the Kernel, just use APM and it will run fine.!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So how to do this?
cheers

Posted: **Fri Mar 10, 2006 1:24 pm**

I've been running slackware 10.2 on my 600e for the past three months with ACPI enabled. No problems whatsoever.

Posted: **Sun Mar 12, 2006 1:16 pm**

Here's something else I found:

(ACPI) COMPLIANT
The ThinkPad 600E is ACPI ready. ACPI is not installed, but the system hardware supports ACPI. While ACPI shows a great deal of promise for the future, numerous problems affect the operation of ACPI on ThinkPad and other notebook systems. Therefore, the system comes with Windows 98 running in APM mode. When the remaining issues with ACPI are resolved, an upgrade package will be made available on the IBM Web site. The upgrade package will contain update procedures and updates to the device drivers and BIOS that you need to make ACPI work reliably.

via: http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site. ... GRN-446MWD

I think that documentation you posted above was for an older version of gentoo. I have the ibm-acpi module loaded into the kernel on my machine and couldn't be happier with the flexibility and power of ACPI.

You should be OK if you're using a (new)er Linux distribution.

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