2.6.10-rc3 /proc/acpi/alarm does not wakeup from S3, videomode lost

2.6.10-rc3 /proc/acpi/alarm does not wakeup from S3, videomode lost

[Michael Frank]

Tried this on several machines:

# date -d +${x}seconds '+%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S' > /proc/acpi/alarm
# echo "3" > /proc/acpi/sleep

3 <= x <= 100 seconds.

Sleeps alright but alarm is ignored, power switch wakes up. /proc/acpi/alarm 
readback correct. 

When machine awoken by button, textmode console videomode (80x60) is lost 
seems to be 80x25 and cursor gone and scroll messed up.

Sometimes "evevent-0286: *** Error: No installed handler for fixed event 
[00000004]" was observed on wakeup from _2nd_ S3.

How to make the alarm function work?

Regards
Michael


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Re: 2.6.10-rc3 /proc/acpi/alarm does not wakeup from S3, videomode lost

[Pavel Machek]

Hi!

> Tried this on several machines:
> 
> # date -d +${x}seconds '+%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S' > /proc/acpi/alarm
> # echo "3" > /proc/acpi/sleep
> 
> 3 <= x <= 100 seconds.
> 
> Sleeps alright but alarm is ignored, power switch wakes up. /proc/acpi/alarm 
> readback correct. 
> 
> When machine awoken by button, textmode console videomode (80x60) is lost 
> seems to be 80x25 and cursor gone and scroll messed up.

Have you tright various options from Documentation/power/video.txt?

Or try just loading new fonts with setfont.

> Sometimes "evevent-0286: *** Error: No installed handler for fixed event 
> [00000004]" was observed on wakeup from _2nd_ S3.
> 
> How to make the alarm function work?

No idea, it never worked for me.
								Pavel
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