ARGH-ing

My soul is in no better shape than last night.

I decided to try Lighthouse64 out on the Thinkpad T400.  I probably don't need to tell  that I had the same success as with the Dell XPS...

Well, I went a step further.  I decided to try an install to the hard drive.  (After all, I can always quickly restore to Funduntu, so...

The install went fine.  Everything was working OK.  Then I tried the trackpad.

Yeah.  No tapping nor scrolling.  And the thing was so sluggish it began to remind me of the trackpad on the CF-29...  Swipe, swipe, swipe, swipe...  Just to get halfway up the screen...  And nothing seems to work in the trackpad control...  I started using the trackpoint, just because it was faster.  (The scroll didn't work with it, either.)

Otherwise, things seemed...OK.  Until I went to test the 'Suspend' feature.

There was no 'Suspend' feature.

Now, Lighthouse is based on FatDog64, which definitely does have 'Suspend' capability built in...

Not happy.  Not happy at all.

I had, by this time, found the Puppy Package Manager, which was in a...well... Not exactly intuitive location.  I'd been searching for any type of restricted driver, etc., that might help with the trackpad.  So, in a fit of desperation, I went looking for acpitool, which I've used on my Precise Puppy install on the Sony Vaio to successfully give me suspend capability.

I was a bit leery of finding it, as Lighthouse apparently is using the Slacko repositories.  (I'd looked for it previously in PhatSlacko, and had found a variation I wasn't familiar with.)  But, low & behold, there it was.  A quick download, and there it be, fully installed.  Cool.  I did a quick -h help check, and then typed in 'acpitool -s". 

And I was informed that I didn't have "write access" to whatever the file was needed for the suspend.

Herewith followed a string of commands, followed by a string of profanities, followed by...

I went to just shut the damned thing down, and noticed an odd icon on the shutdown menu.  Clicking on it took me to a "suspend" menu...

Clicking on the "Suspend" button got me absolutely nothing.  The conky showed the processor spiked slightly.  Clicking on the "Hibernate" button got me a big error message.

Slamming the computer lid shut got me a very great, but entirely transitory, feeling of satisfaction.  Or at least a bit of pseudo-cathartic release...

Yeah, I know...............