Thinkpad R40 apm fun on STABLE

[Michael Collette]

Just got in this real perty Thinkpad R40 for a friend of mine.  Doing up his 
FreeBSD install for him.  All cvsup'd to the latest 4-STABLE here.  This box 
has the ATI Radeon 7500 card in it as well.

It's been putting up a bit of a fight with FreeBSD.  The biggest of my 
glitches seems to be apm.  Oh sure, it'll go to sleep.  What it won't do is 
wake up properly.  Upon waking you can see the LCD backlight kick on, a 
little blinking on the HD light, then the HD light goes solid on.  At this 
point the only recovery is a forced power down.

Judging from the previous set of threads, apm seems to be a real popular 
Thinkpad topic of late.  In my googling about it seems there's some 
relationship between this ATI card and not wanting to resume.  I ran into 
threads discussing apm probs on other laptops with this card in play.

Apparently Linux has some similar issues, for which there's a patch available.  
Last year someone posted to a FreeBSD list that he was going to have a look 
at implementing something similar over on this side of the Unix aisle.  
Doesn't look like anything has come from that.


In other news....

USB Palm stuff.  Is there a reasonable tutorial out there some place that 
discusses the basic setup on this?  Thus far I've only been able to dig up 
remnants of threads.  This user wishes to sync his Palm to jpilot as he had 
been doing via a regular serial port.  No serial on the new Thinkpads.

Perhaps related to the apm problem, but this Radeon sure as heck does not like 
having agp support in the kernel.  Causes X to drop core.  Mind you, when in 
regular use this card is wicked sweet.  Full screen DVD that's flawless.  
Anyhow, might someone have the magical kernel combination to unlock why I 
can't talk to an agp device with the agp module?  Eventually I'd like dri and 
drm to actually work all proper.

Speaking of kernel fun, any suggestions on what all to turn on to get talking 
to the built-in wireless stuff?  Is that going to have to wait for 5-STABLE 
before it'll work?

I haven't yet had a chance to dig into the modem config yet.  Are we still 
talking about a nice basic Lucent WinModem like in Thinkpads of old, or did 
IBM decide to get clever?  I know my T23 works pretty sweet, so I've got 
fingers crossed here.

Thanks,
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