Re: S1 stopped working with 2.6.2 on the Inspiron 8600

[Bruno Ducrot <ducrot-kk6yZipjEM5g9hUCZPvPmw@public.gmane.org>]

On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 09:46:14AM +0100, info-HF0vHiRXI/roK6nBLMlh1Q@public.gmane.org wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> After my last woe was cured in record time with the help of this list, I try my
> next:
> 
> When trying to enter S1 on my notebook (Dell Inspiron 8600/Centrino, kernel:
> Linux 2.6.2), the last message appearing is "PM: Entering state", and the
> notebook is _not_ switched off.
> 
> The power LED is blinkig as it would if it were sleeping. but the display is
> still on, displaying the last messages from PM. Pressing the power button
> "resumes" (with the first message "Back to C"), and everyting is working again.

Then S1 work.  Just that powering down the backlight is not done..

> The strange thing is that entering S1 (suspend to RAM) actually worked with
> 2.6.0-test11.

You meant the backlight is off with that kernel?  That's strange.  Maybe
a problem in console suspend code perhaps?  Are you using a fb driver btw?

(NB: S1 is not "suspend-to-ram", but "standby").

> What made it unusable for me was the fact that after resume the ethernet card
> (broadcomm 4400 / b44) would not receive any interrupts, even if the module was
> unloaded before suspend and inserted again after resume.

That an "interrupts are not correctly reassigned upon resume problem", not
a problem with the driver itself I think.  There is already a bugzilla entry for
that one IIRC.

-- 
Bruno Ducrot

--  Which is worse:  ignorance or apathy?
--  Don't know.  Don't care.


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