I have a Thinkpad 600E and have been happy for the most part of what can be done with it under Slackware. Most websites seem to have information for Red Hat or Mandrake on a Thinkpad, but there's very little regarding Slackware.

My problem is as follows. I have APM compiled into my kernel and issue an apm --suspend command. When I resume from suspend, everything looks fine, except I have to eject and re-insert my PCMCIA card and reload my soundcard drivers (they're OSS). I have checked the manpages for apmd and read that it defaults to reading /etc/apm/apmd_proxy to parse a script for commands to run during apm events. So I wrote a script from information online and put it in an apm folder under etc, called apmd_proxy.

No matter what I do, even running apmd -P /etc/apm/apmd_proxy, apmd refuses to invoke this file at all (I even added an echo statement to see if the file was being executed at all). So my question is, is there another file I should be looking at, or am I doing something wrong here? ACPI is not an option on this machine (it's listed as not working according to the maintainers of ACPI). Any help would be appreciated.

I'd like to add some more findings I have found.

The script apmd_proxy does seem to get invoked, however, it seems when a suspend event is sent when using apm --suspend, by the time my /sbin/cardctl eject command is sent from apmd_proxy, the system has already done cardctl suspend to all my card. Likewise, when I resume from standby, cardctl eject/remove aren't invoked (because the card is still suspended until apmd_proxy is finished, then i assume cardctl resume is called).

How can I prevent the system from suspending my card(s) so I can eject them manually in apmd_proxy?