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Subject: Re: 6.x on an IBM T42 laptop
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Mark Willson wrote:
>> I've got an IBM T42 laptop that's currently running 5.4, and it's working 
>> nicely at the moment.  ACPI works well enough that suspend to RAM works 
>> ('zzz'), the audio works, USB devices are recognised, and the battery life's 
>> reasonable (with est enabled).
>>
>> Is anyone aware of any regressions in laptop functionality going from 5.4 to 
>> 6.x?
> 
> I've been running 6-STABLE on a T42 for a while and not noticed any
> problems in the subjects mentioned.  The addition of iwi has made life
> a little simpler.  I think it is ok to take the leap...

Thanks.

I noticed that the acpi_ibm manual page talks about the suspend-to-disk 
functionality.

Does that work?

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