From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pavel Machek Subject: Re: State of ACPI on my Compaq Presario 2100z Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2004 16:56:38 +0200 Sender: acpi-devel-admin-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org Message-ID: <20040902145638.GA742@elf.ucw.cz> References: <200409010224.10507.andre@eisenbach.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200409010224.10507.andre-+hZUvIEKc2q1Z/+hSey0Gg@public.gmane.org> Errors-To: acpi-devel-admin-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: To: Andre Eisenbach Cc: acpi-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org Hi! > I've contacted you guys a while ago about the problems with my Compaq Presario > 2100, back then specifically my problems with a slowdown when running on > battery and suspend problems. I even soldered up some parallel port LED's > back then, but never got to put them to good use. > > Since then, ACPI is working even worse than before, now the notebook doesn't > shut down properly anymore. The last message is "Power off." (when doing > shutdown -h now), or "Sending acpi_power_off" (when doing echo -n disk > > /sys/power/state). > > Battery, AC, thermal zone and CPU info works fine. > > Suspending to memory suspends the notebook, but opening the lid again (or > pressing the power button) only results in a sub-second wake-up (fan starts, > hd starts ever so slightly, lcd stays off), then all goes dark again - > everything off. Pressing the power button again just starts regular boot. > > Suspending to disk seems to work with every module unloaded and outside of X. > Trying the same from within X is a totally different (ugly) problem > alltogether. But that's not important to me anyway. > > I'm currently running kernel 2.6.9-rc1-mm2 (acpi 20040816). > > As I did back then, I am very interested in helping out troubleshooting the > problem. I am a software developer, but I just don't know where to start > here. If somebody wishes to speculate what may be wrong (with suspend/powe > off) from a birds-eye view, I might find a place to start my journey into > ACPI. You might want to stick some infinite loop at the beggining of wakeup.S and see if it ever reaches that... Pavel -- When do you have heart between your knees? ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by BEA Weblogic Workshop FREE Java Enterprise J2EE developer tools! Get your free copy of BEA WebLogic Workshop 8.1 today. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=5047&alloc_id=10808&op=click