Re: State of ACPI on my Compaq Presario 2100z

[Pavel Machek <pavel-+ZI9xUNit7I@public.gmane.org>]

Hi!

> I've contacted you guys a while ago about the problems with my Compaq Presario 
> 2100, back then specifically my problems with a slowdown when running on 
> battery and suspend problems. I even soldered up some parallel port LED's 
> back then, but never got to put them to good use.
> 
> Since then, ACPI is working even worse than before, now the notebook doesn't 
> shut down properly anymore. The last message is "Power off." (when doing 
> shutdown -h now), or "Sending acpi_power_off" (when doing echo -n disk 
> > /sys/power/state).
> 
> Battery, AC, thermal zone and CPU info works fine.
> 
> Suspending to memory suspends the notebook, but opening the lid again (or 
> pressing the power button) only results in a sub-second wake-up (fan starts, 
> hd starts ever so slightly, lcd stays off), then all goes dark again - 
> everything off. Pressing the power button again just starts regular boot.
> 
> Suspending to disk seems to work with every module unloaded and outside of X. 
> Trying the same from within X is a totally different (ugly) problem 
> alltogether. But that's not important to me anyway.
> 
> I'm currently running kernel 2.6.9-rc1-mm2 (acpi 20040816).
> 
> As I did back then, I am very interested in helping out troubleshooting the 
> problem. I am a software developer, but I just don't know where to start 
> here. If somebody wishes to speculate what may be wrong (with suspend/powe 
> off) from a birds-eye view, I might find a place to start my journey into 
> ACPI.

You might want to stick some infinite loop at the beggining of
wakeup.S and see if it ever reaches that...
							Pavel
-- 
When do you have heart between your knees?


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