Re: sleep states - maybe a dumb question...

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

Hi!

> maybe this is a very dumb question, but I did not find an answer in 
> the docs. (or I was not looking at the right place)
> 
> I see two different sleep-state capabilities on my laptop (run by a 
> transmeta cursoe CPU) running 2.6.4 vanilla kernel and a debian 
> unstable system.
> 
> # cat /proc/acpi/sleep
> S0 S3 S4 S5
> 
> # cat /sys/power/state
> standby mem disk
> 
> as I understand 'standby' is synonymous to 'S1', which is not showing 
> up in the /proc version...
> 
> when issuing echo -n standby > /sys/power/state the system acts as if 
> it would go to standby (switch to console, some output saying so, 
> etc.) but resumes immediately.
> 
> what does that mean?
> does my laptop lack S1/standby capability?

Bug in Patricks code. It should not announce standby when
no S1 is available. Oh and it indeed is very igly to have
2 interfaces for same thing; hopefully that will get fixed, too.
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