Re: Version considerations

On 27/01/2012 21:51, Morten Juhl-Johansen Zölde-Fejer wrote:
> Dear slackfolk,
>
> I am sorry if this is a bit vague, but -
> I have used Slackware as my main OS since 10.0. With 13.37, it
> introduced a kernel with which suspend stopped working on my Thinkpad
> T40P (or rather, resume stopped working, but you know). It died and I
> got an X32 which does the same. The most recent Slackware will not
> suspend correctly, and this goes for every current Linux distribution on
> that laptop. I have seen some pointers to working around that problem,
> but I have found nothing that seems to solve it.
>

Have you tried nomodeset on the same line as vga= in the lilo.conf file?

so if vga=123 you put:

vga=123 nomodeset

then run lilo to install the lilo into the boot loader.

If that is the solution it would save having to mess about with 
compiling a new kernel.

Best,

John