Re: 2.5.34?

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

Hi!

> >but 2.5.35 is out, so there's no need any more ;-)
> 
> ok, I'll try 2.5.35;  Is there a changelog for acpi? (other than the
> kernel changelog)
> 
> S1 is working for me with 2.4.19, but even if I throttle back the cpu it
> eats a lot of power (and generates a lot of heat!)
> 
> I've been fooling around with S3.  It looks like the big recent
> additions (in 2.5) are to try and set the video mode in the wakeup
> callback.  I keep sending email to the list but I have not heard from
> anyone talk about the status of this code.

In such case... you are not listening.

> I want to ask "does the s3 wakeup code work for anyone?"; I suspect it
> does since I've read reports that S4 is working for some and it uses
> the same code path (for wakeup anyway).

No. S3 wakeup is completely different from S4 wakeup.

And bothworked for me in 2.5.32 IIRC.

> Any suggestions how to debug this?  I would hack in some code to spit
> messages out the uart but my hp laptop doesn't have one :-) I may try
> a pcmcia 16550 card and a kgdb hack...
> 
> S3 puts it to sleep fine but when I wake up it seem to be hung - no lcd,
> no keyboard...  It's pretty hard to say how far it gets.

Look at acpi_wakeup.S. If your mode is in  text VGA you can just write
to videoram. Maybe code to do that is still there?
								Pavel
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