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To: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami)
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Subject: Re: Suspend/resume in -current: still no joy 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 29 Oct 1997 18:46:58 PST."
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Date: Thu, 30 Oct 1997 21:40:06 -0800
From: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>
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> My goodness.  If you want to get rid of that wretched laptop, I can
> certainly use another one. :>

Er, no thanks.  I like the laptop just fine.  It's just Windows 95
that drives me crazy.

> * Now here's the clue.  I can make it fail like that reliably when
> * the AC adapter is plugged in.  But if I unhook the AC so that
> * it's using battery power, suspend/resume works perfectly every
> * time!  Plug in the AC, and it fails again.  Unplug it, and it
> * works again.
> *
> * What do you think about that? :-)
>
> Maybe it realizes it's on AC power and thinks "gee, why do I need to
> suspend, I'm on AC!" :)

Yes, but it's not that simple.  More like, "gee, I'm on AC and there's
a Megahertz modem card in my orifice ... why do I need to suspend?"
Take out the modem card and it suspends just fine whether it's on AC
or not.

John