Re: Acer Aspire 1690 Suspend/Hibernate Report with 2.6.29-rc3

[Daniel Qarras <dqarras@yahoo.com>]

Hi!

> > (Of course for a layman like me it is a bit saddening
> > that this worked earlier but not anymore.)
> 
> Perhaps Rafael has some idea on what has changed in the
> meantime to cause this problem.  It could have something to do with the
> way ACPI is now integrated with the PCI drivers, for example.

Not sure if this is appropriate but I'll mention that I have dual-boot and with Windows XP SP 3 hibernation works all ok.

> > Please find such a dmesg attached.
> 
> The log doesn't indicate a real cause.  It does show
> that wakeup was disabled on the EHCI controller, but nevertheless that
> controller must have been responsible for waking up your system when the
> mouse was plugged back in.  You can test this by unloading ehci-hcd
> before suspending.

Correct, I tested suspend after removing the offending module and plugging the mouse does not wake the machine anymore! One thing is still different when comparing to Win XP (if I may): hitting mouse buttons will activate the internal led while in suspend even after removing the module but nothing done with the mouse wakes the machine.

> The fact that _un_plugging the mouse didn't cause a
> wakeup has an interesting explanation.  The mouse is a low-speed USB
> device, and as such is managed by the UHCI controller.  Evidently that
> controller really was disabled for wakeup, since unplugging the mouse
> didn't have any effect.  But when a new USB device is plugged in, the
> system doesn't know what speed it runs at.  So the device is
> attached first to EHCI, and then if it proves not to be high-speed it
> gets switched electronically over to UHCI.  Thus the plug-in event
> stimulated the EHCI controller to cause a wakeup.
> 
> This does seem like a firmware problem, but maybe Rafael
> can suggest a way to work around it.

That would be awesome. I'm able to test any patches you might cook up.

Thanks!