Re: P2120 ACPI 2.5.64bk7

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

Hi!

> I've just gotten a P2120 because I'm a big fan of long battery life and power 
> management. I was disappointed when I discovered it was ACPI and not the 
> kinda working APM. In the long run it's probably better to have ACPI, so I'm 
> okay with this.
> 
> I installed the 2.5.64bk7 kernel to see what the current progress is. I'm 
> willing to test whatever, code and contribute if someone wants to tell me 
> what needs to be done. I have years and years of C experience and have done 
> embedded work. I just don't want to work on something that someone else is 
> already doing (wasting effort).
> 
> The S3 ACPI shutdown appears to work, but is unwakeable. At somepoint, I think 
> with the vanilla 2.5.64 kernel it worked once, I just had to hit Ctrl-Alt-F1, 
> Ctrl-Alt-F7 to get the display back.
> 
> The S4 ACPI shutdown has the "enter refrigerator" messages, followed by the 
> following:
>   stopping tasks failed (1 tasks remaining)
> Suspend failed: Not all processes stopped!
> Restarting tasks...<6> Strange, eth0 not stopped
>  done
> Then the "left refrigerator" messages follow.
> 
> So I tried "ifdown eth0; rmmod 8139too" before trying a S4 shutdown. Then 
> after the "enter refrigerator" messages, it says:
> Freeing memory, (display flickers), writing to swap, (display off). I can then 
> start it back up with a "resume=/dev/hda5" (my swap partition). I have an 
> "a0" hibernate partition, but it doesn't find or use this.

So... S4 does actually work for you?
									Pavel
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