From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pavel Machek Subject: Re: s4bios: does anyone use it? Date: Sat, 5 Mar 2005 22:17:47 +0100 Message-ID: <20050305211747.GF1424@elf.ucw.cz> References: <20050305191405.GA1463@elf.ucw.cz> <422A1FB6.3000504@ens-lyon.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <422A1FB6.3000504-vYW+cPY1g1pg9hUCZPvPmw@public.gmane.org> Sender: acpi-devel-admin-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org Errors-To: acpi-devel-admin-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: To: Brice Goglin Cc: kernel list , ACPI mailing list , seife-l3A5Bk7waGM@public.gmane.org, Len Brown List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org Hi! > >Is there single user of s4bios? It used to work for me 4 notebooks > >ago, but I never really used it. I think I'm the only person that ever > >seen it working, but I could be wrong. Is there anyone using s4bios in > >2.6.11? > > > >If not, I guess we should remove that code from kernel. It is not > >usefull, and it is likely broken. > > Pavel > I always suspend my Compaq Evo N6OOc to disk using "echo 4b > > /proc/acpi/sleep". > I don't remember the reason why I originally did choose this one instead of > S4. > I just checked that S4 and S4Bios work the same on 2.6.11-mm1 (even with my > PCMCIA wireless card connected, great!). > From what I remember, I didn't see any difference between S4 and S4Bios in > recent vanilla kernels. Can you try cat /proc/acpi/sleep? If there's no difference between S4 and S4bios, than you are probably just using plain S4... > By the way, it seems that Radeon makes suspend slower because it needs > to be blanked or something like that. Is there any way to avoid this ? Yes, but it will take quite long to do it properly. pm_message_t framework needs to go in, first. Pavel -- People were complaining that M$ turns users into beta-testers... ...jr ghea gurz vagb qrirybcref, naq gurl frrz gb yvxr vg gung jnl! ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click