S4bios on Sony Vaio FX601

S4bios on Sony Vaio FX601

[marcogi-VGgt2q2+T+FeoWH0uzbU5w]

Hi,

I have a Sony Vaio PCG-FX601 (FXA53 is the US model) and I wondering it
it support S4bios.
If it is supported, I need an A0 suspend partition?
FX601 model has same bios of FX60x, FX70x and perhaps FX80x models, is
there someone that has such notebooks that made S4bios to work?

I use kernel 2.4.20+APCI 20021205+swsusp16 but resuming after swsusp
my pc hangs almost the time.

If it can helps, pmtools say:

myhost:/tmp/pmtools-20010730# ./acpidmp/acpidmp FACP|./acpidmp/acpitbl
Signature:        FACP
Length:           116
Revision:         0x01
Checksum:         0x63
OEMID:            SONY
OEM Table ID:     K5
OEM Revision:     0x06040000
Creator ID:       PTL_
Creator Revision: 0x000f4240
FIRMWARE_CTRL:    0x0fefffc0
DSDT:             0x0fef9ac0
INT_MODEL:        0x00
SCI_INT:          9
SMI_CMD:          0x0000802f
ACPI_ENABLE:      0xf0
ACPI_DISABLE:     0xf1
S4BIOS_REQ:       0xf2
PM1a_EVT_BLK:     0x00008000
PM1b_EVT_BLK:     0x00000000
PM1a_CNT_BLK:     0x00008004
PM1b_CNT_BLK:     0x00000000
PM2_CNT_BLK:      0x00000000
PM_TMR_BLK:       0x00008008
GPE0_BLK:         0x00008020
GPE1_BLK:         0x00000000
PM1_EVT_LEN:      4
PM1_CNT_LEN:      2
PM2_CNT_LEN:      0
PM_TM_LEN:        4
GPE0_BLK_LEN:     4
GPE1_BLK_LEN:     0
GPE1_BASE:        0
P_LVL2_LAT:       90
P_LVL3_LAT:       1100
FLUSH_SIZE:       0
FLUSH_STRIDE:     0
DUTY_OFFSET:      0
DUTY_WIDTH:       4
DAY_ALRM:         0x7d
MON_ALRM:         0x7e
CENTURY:          0x32
Flags:            0x000001a5


myhost:/tmp/pmtools-20010730# ./acpidmp/acpidmp FACS|./acpidmp/acpitbl
Signature:              FACS
Length:                 64
Hardware Signature:     0x00000a59
Firmware Waking Vector: 0x00000000
Global Lock:            0x00000000
Flags:                  0x00000000


Thanks for any help.

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Re: S4bios on Sony Vaio FX601

[Ducrot Bruno]

On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 10:40:03AM +0100, marcogi-VGgt2q2+T+FeoWH0uzbU5w@public.gmane.org wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a Sony Vaio PCG-FX601 (FXA53 is the US model) and I wondering it
> it support S4bios.
> If it is supported, I need an A0 suspend partition?

Well, I think that you should have such partition.  This one have a
Phoenix bios, no?  Try lphdisk at http://www.procyon.com/~pda/lphdisk/
or do a apt-get install lphdisk if you are on a Debian GNU/Linux.

> FX601 model has same bios of FX60x, FX70x and perhaps FX80x models, is
> there someone that has such notebooks that made S4bios to work?
> 
> I use kernel 2.4.20+APCI 20021205+swsusp16 but resuming after swsusp
> my pc hangs almost the time.
> 
> If it can helps, pmtools say:
> 
> myhost:/tmp/pmtools-20010730# ./acpidmp/acpidmp FACP|./acpidmp/acpitbl
> ACPI_DISABLE:     0xf1
> S4BIOS_REQ:       0xf2

Should be OK.

> 
> myhost:/tmp/pmtools-20010730# ./acpidmp/acpidmp FACS|./acpidmp/acpitbl
> Signature:              FACS
> Length:                 64
> Hardware Signature:     0x00000a59
> Firmware Waking Vector: 0x00000000
> Global Lock:            0x00000000
> Flags:                  0x00000000

The Flags part say that you can not use S4Bios, certainly because the
BIOS know that you don't have a suspend partition.

The Flags part have bit 0 set if you can enter S4Bibos.


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Re: S4bios on Sony Vaio FX601

[marcogi-VGgt2q2+T+FeoWH0uzbU5w]

On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 11:15:31AM +0100, Ducrot Bruno wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 10:40:03AM +0100, marcogi-VGgt2q2+T+FeoWH0uzbU5w@public.gmane.org wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I have a Sony Vaio PCG-FX601 (FXA53 is the US model) and I wondering it
> > it support S4bios.
> > If it is supported, I need an A0 suspend partition?
> 
> Well, I think that you should have such partition.  This one have a
> Phoenix bios, no?  Try lphdisk at http://www.procyon.com/~pda/lphdisk/
> or do a apt-get install lphdisk if you are on a Debian GNU/Linux.

Yes, bios is Phoenix and I have debiani; lphdisk already got.
My question is why to make suspend partition I must resize a 11GB ext2
partition and must buckup it.

> > myhost:/tmp/pmtools-20010730# ./acpidmp/acpidmp FACS|./acpidmp/acpitbl
> > Signature:              FACS
> > Length:                 64
> > Hardware Signature:     0x00000a59
> > Firmware Waking Vector: 0x00000000
> > Global Lock:            0x00000000
> > Flags:                  0x00000000
> 
> The Flags part say that you can not use S4Bios, certainly because the
> BIOS know that you don't have a suspend partition.
> 
> The Flags part have bit 0 set if you can enter S4Bibos.

ok, as I suspected.
Thanks very much.

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Re: S4bios on Sony Vaio FX601

[Nils Faerber]

On Mon, 13 Jan 2003 11:15:31 +0100
Ducrot Bruno <ducrot-kk6yZipjEM5g9hUCZPvPmw@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 10:40:03AM +0100, marcogi-VGgt2q2+T+FeoWH0uzbU5w@public.gmane.org wrote:
> > Hi,
Hello!

> > I have a Sony Vaio PCG-FX601 (FXA53 is the US model) and I wondering
> > it it support S4bios.
> > If it is supported, I need an A0 suspend partition?
> Well, I think that you should have such partition.  This one have a
> Phoenix bios, no?  Try lphdisk at http://www.procyon.com/~pda/lphdisk/
> or do a apt-get install lphdisk if you are on a Debian GNU/Linux.

For other BIOS brands like Award there is a DOS utility called
"zvhdd.exe" which created such a partition. But also with this one I had
no luck on my Award Asus notebook.

> > FX601 model has same bios of FX60x, FX70x and perhaps FX80x models,
> > is there someone that has such notebooks that made S4bios to work?
> > 
> > I use kernel 2.4.20+APCI 20021205+swsusp16 but resuming after swsusp
> > my pc hangs almost the time.

Do you have framebuffer console?
This was a problem with my notebook and swsusp! Now I have plain VGA
textmode and swsusp works again.

> > If it can helps, pmtools say:
> > 
> > myhost:/tmp/pmtools-20010730# ./acpidmp/acpidmp
> > FACP|./acpidmp/acpitbl ACPI_DISABLE:     0xf1
> > S4BIOS_REQ:       0xf2
> 
> Should be OK.

Err ... mine sais S4BIOS_REQ:       0x00.
Does this mean I do not have S4BIOS at all?

> > myhost:/tmp/pmtools-20010730# ./acpidmp/acpidmp
> > FACS|./acpidmp/acpitbl Signature:              FACS
> > Length:                 64
> > Hardware Signature:     0x00000a59
> > Firmware Waking Vector: 0x00000000
> > Global Lock:            0x00000000
> > Flags:                  0x00000000
> 
> The Flags part say that you can not use S4Bios, certainly because the
> BIOS know that you don't have a suspend partition.
> 
> The Flags part have bit 0 set if you can enter S4Bibos.
> Cheers,
> Ducrot Bruno
CU
  nils faerber

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Re: S4bios on Sony Vaio FX601

[Ducrot Bruno]

On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 11:48:50AM +0100, Nils Faerber wrote:
> On Mon, 13 Jan 2003 11:15:31 +0100
> Ducrot Bruno <ducrot-kk6yZipjEM5g9hUCZPvPmw@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 10:40:03AM +0100, marcogi-VGgt2q2+T+FeoWH0uzbU5w@public.gmane.org wrote:
> > > Hi,
> Hello!
> 
> > > I have a Sony Vaio PCG-FX601 (FXA53 is the US model) and I wondering
> > > it it support S4bios.
> > > If it is supported, I need an A0 suspend partition?
> > Well, I think that you should have such partition.  This one have a
> > Phoenix bios, no?  Try lphdisk at http://www.procyon.com/~pda/lphdisk/
> > or do a apt-get install lphdisk if you are on a Debian GNU/Linux.
> 
> For other BIOS brands like Award there is a DOS utility called
> "zvhdd.exe" which created such a partition. But also with this one I had
> no luck on my Award Asus notebook.

Hum, interresting...

> 
> > > FX601 model has same bios of FX60x, FX70x and perhaps FX80x models,
> > > is there someone that has such notebooks that made S4bios to work?
> > > 
> > > I use kernel 2.4.20+APCI 20021205+swsusp16 but resuming after swsusp
> > > my pc hangs almost the time.
> 
> Do you have framebuffer console?
> This was a problem with my notebook and swsusp! Now I have plain VGA
> textmode and swsusp works again.

Fixed in swsusp but for 2.5 series AFAICT.  I don't know for 2.4 series.

> > > If it can helps, pmtools say:
> > > 
> > > myhost:/tmp/pmtools-20010730# ./acpidmp/acpidmp
> > > FACP|./acpidmp/acpitbl ACPI_DISABLE:     0xf1
> > > S4BIOS_REQ:       0xf2
> > 
> > Should be OK.
> 
> Err ... mine sais S4BIOS_REQ:       0x00.
> Does this mean I do not have S4BIOS at all?

I believe that you need to call a BIOS function in order to register
your partition (or even a file).  This call need to be 'discovered'
somehow, though.


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Re: S4bios on Sony Vaio FX601

[marcogi-VGgt2q2+T+FeoWH0uzbU5w]

On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 11:48:50AM +0100, Nils Faerber wrote:
 
> > > FX601 model has same bios of FX60x, FX70x and perhaps FX80x models,
> > > is there someone that has such notebooks that made S4bios to work?
> > > 
> > > I use kernel 2.4.20+APCI 20021205+swsusp16 but resuming after swsusp
> > > my pc hangs almost the time.
> 
> Do you have framebuffer console?

No, plain text mode.
I think proplem is related to pcmcia network card (a 3Com 589).

But if S4bios works I prefer it due to linux/freebsd dual boot.

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Re: S4bios on Sony Vaio FX601

[Ducrot Bruno]

On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 01:02:04PM +0100, marcogi-VGgt2q2+T+FeoWH0uzbU5w@public.gmane.org wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 11:48:50AM +0100, Nils Faerber wrote:
>  
> > > > FX601 model has same bios of FX60x, FX70x and perhaps FX80x models,
> > > > is there someone that has such notebooks that made S4bios to work?
> > > > 
> > > > I use kernel 2.4.20+APCI 20021205+swsusp16 but resuming after swsusp
> > > > my pc hangs almost the time.
> > 
> > Do you have framebuffer console?
> 
> No, plain text mode.
> I think proplem is related to pcmcia network card (a 3Com 589).
> 
> But if S4bios works I prefer it due to linux/freebsd dual boot.

BTW, freebsd s4bios work for you?  For me, it work like a charm, but
I have no pcmcia card to play with.

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Re: S4bios on Sony Vaio FX601

[marcogi-VGgt2q2+T+FeoWH0uzbU5w]

On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 02:54:18PM +0100, Ducrot Bruno wrote:
> > > Do you have framebuffer console?
> > 
> > No, plain text mode.
> > I think proplem is related to pcmcia network card (a 3Com 589).
> > 
> > But if S4bios works I prefer it due to linux/freebsd dual boot.
> 
> BTW, freebsd s4bios work for you?  For me, it work like a charm, but
> I have no pcmcia card to play with.

I must repartitoin my HD before test S4bios.
I'll make you know.

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Re: S4bios on Sony Vaio FX601

[marcogi-VGgt2q2+T+FeoWH0uzbU5w]

On Mon, 13 Jan 2003, Ducrot Bruno wrote:

> > > Do you have framebuffer console?
> >
> > No, plain text mode.
> > I think proplem is related to pcmcia network card (a 3Com 589).
> >
> > But if S4bios works I prefer it due to linux/freebsd dual boot.
>
> BTW, freebsd s4bios work for you?  For me, it work like a charm, but
> I have no pcmcia card to play with.

Made A0 suspend partition and formatted using lphdisk.
S4Bios now work for freebsd, I'm using 4.6, under text mode.
Suspend work even if PCMCIA network card remains into socket.
If I suspend while X is up, computer hangs (suspend-to-disk do not
start at all).
Time to try newer versions with acpi support :)

While using linux 2.4.20 + acpi-20021205 and 2 patches posted to this
ML some time ago (s4bios-2.4.20-acpi-20021205 and
00_system_fix_s4bios-2.4.20-acpi-20021205) suspend doesn't works.
echo -n 4b >/proc/acpi/sleep make bios to start hibernation process, but
on resuming system hangs after datas from suspend partition are loaded.
The bios resume screen remains on the screen and I must power cycle the
notebook.

Any idea?

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Re: S4bios on Sony Vaio FX601

[marcogi-VGgt2q2+T+FeoWH0uzbU5w]

On Thu, 16 Jan 2003, Ducrot Bruno wrote:

> > While using linux 2.4.20 + acpi-20021205 and 2 patches posted to this
> > ML some time ago (s4bios-2.4.20-acpi-20021205 and
> > 00_system_fix_s4bios-2.4.20-acpi-20021205) suspend doesn't works.
> > echo -n 4b >/proc/acpi/sleep make bios to start hibernation process, but
> > on resuming system hangs after datas from suspend partition are loaded.
> > The bios resume screen remains on the screen and I must power cycle the
> > notebook.
>
> Did you use framebuffer console?  If yes, try without it.  Try also on
> console.

I'm using console. I did not compile framebuffer into my kernel.
How can I produce info for debug?

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Re: S4bios on Sony Vaio FX601

[Ducrot Bruno]

On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 06:50:42PM +0100, marcogi-VGgt2q2+T+FeoWH0uzbU5w@public.gmane.org wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Jan 2003, Ducrot Bruno wrote:
> 
> > > While using linux 2.4.20 + acpi-20021205 and 2 patches posted to this
> > > ML some time ago (s4bios-2.4.20-acpi-20021205 and
> > > 00_system_fix_s4bios-2.4.20-acpi-20021205) suspend doesn't works.
> > > echo -n 4b >/proc/acpi/sleep make bios to start hibernation process, but
> > > on resuming system hangs after datas from suspend partition are loaded.
> > > The bios resume screen remains on the screen and I must power cycle the
> > > notebook.
> >
> > Did you use framebuffer console?  If yes, try without it.  Try also on
> > console.
> 
> I'm using console. I did not compile framebuffer into my kernel.
> How can I produce info for debug?
> 

I got some trouble with an usb mouse, also the PCI config space of
the pcmcia hubs was not properly restored.
Could you try without usb nor any pcmcia cards please?

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Re: S4bios on Sony Vaio FX601

[Marco Gigante]

On Fri, Jan 17, 2003 at 11:43:49AM +0100, Ducrot Bruno wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 06:50:42PM +0100, marcogi-VGgt2q2+T+FeoWH0uzbU5w@public.gmane.org wrote:
> > On Thu, 16 Jan 2003, Ducrot Bruno wrote:
> > 
> > > > While using linux 2.4.20 + acpi-20021205 and 2 patches posted to this
> > > > ML some time ago (s4bios-2.4.20-acpi-20021205 and
> > > > 00_system_fix_s4bios-2.4.20-acpi-20021205) suspend doesn't works.
> > > > echo -n 4b >/proc/acpi/sleep make bios to start hibernation process, but
> > > > on resuming system hangs after datas from suspend partition are loaded.
> > > > The bios resume screen remains on the screen and I must power cycle the
> > > > notebook.
> > >
> > > Did you use framebuffer console?  If yes, try without it.  Try also on
> > > console.
> > 
> > I'm using console. I did not compile framebuffer into my kernel.
> > How can I produce info for debug?
> > 
> 
> I got some trouble with an usb mouse, also the PCI config space of
> the pcmcia hubs was not properly restored.
> Could you try without usb nor any pcmcia cards please?

Done, but problem is still the same.
I tried to not load usb and pcmcia modules at all (not removing after
load), only acpi modules loaded and still the same. Pcmcia sockets were
empty.
Must I compile acpi built into kernel?

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