Re: apm -z on a toshiba satellite

[Alfred Breull <puma@hannover.sgh-net.de>]

Sky McKinley <skym@pdx.edu>:
>Hello.  I'm running 3.1-stable on a Toshiba Satellite 3000 laptop and
>I've been fiddling with apm lately.  I have found that when I put the
>system in suspend mode with apm -z, it never really wakes back up.
>The power light returns to normal, but the screen never comes back up
>and the system remains unresponsive.  I'm not sure if the apm function
>works on this laptop, as the battery is apparently unreadable by the
>apm daemon.  Any information at all would be greatly appreciated.


The very same has been reported in comp.unix.bsd.openbsd.misc for a 
Toshiba Portege 3010 laptop (May 23) with no reply.

Additionally, two or three weeks before, there were several postings 
reporting APM problems with the very same signs/ symptoms (no solu-
tions). Hmm, don't remember the OpenBSD versions anymore.

Myself, I'm running 2.9 on a two or three years old Toshiba Satellite
Pro 490 CDT without APM--since, at that time, APM support [screen set-
tings and several BIOS parameters] had to come from Toshiba routines 
running on an ms windows partition. Well, and--meanwhile--I'm used 
to 'shutdown -hp now'. :)

Also, you may want to remember that it was suggested [in a slightly
different context] to disable APM before installing [some] earlier 
versions of OpenBSD to i386 boxen.