[Pm-utils] Panasonic Toughbook CF-Y2 suspend problems in F7

[Stefan Seyfried]

On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 12:30:07PM +0100, Richard Hughes wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-07-19 at 00:17 -0600, Lane Brooks wrote:
> > Richard Hughes wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2007-07-17 at 16:58 -0600, Lane Brooks wrote:
> > >> I have the Panasonic Toughbook CF-Y2 laptop and am having suspend issues
> > >> in F7.  Suspend and resume worked fine for me in FC5 and FC6 but the
> > >> resume is no longer working in F7.  The back light fails to turn on.  It
> > >> does seem functional otherwise though.  Commands I type after a resume
> > >> actually work (I have been debugging without X running).
> > >>
> > >> I have tried all the quirks.  None seem to help.  The S3 BIOS option
> > >> makes it worse so that I the machine is completely hung.
> > > 
> > > Have you tried using the kernel and pm-utils in updates testing?
> > > 
> > > Richard.
> > > 
> > > 
> > 
> > The kernel and pm-utils from updates testing works if I use the vbe-post 
> > quirk.  Attached is the hal-info patch.
> 
> Committed, many thanks.

It will probably work with other CF-Y2's, too, so i'd recommend matching on
"CF-Y2*" (Panasonic does not shuffle hardware around randomly).
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