Re: S3 resume and other ACPI questions

[Pavel Machek <pavel-+ZI9xUNit7I@public.gmane.org>]

On Pá 18-03-05 19:33:48, Andre Eisenbach wrote:
> On Tue, 8 Mar 2005 10:57:22 +0100, Pavel Machek <pavel-+ZI9xUNit7I@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> > Read Doc*/power/video.txt. Send me a patch when you get it working.
> 
> Hello Pavel, all,
> 
> I've read video.txt and it got me further actually. Thanks for that.
> 
> I've recompiled the kernel without any fbcon etc. and use the "radeon"
> display driver within X windows (Gentoo patched version). This way I
> can actually resume from S3 now, and get right back into X. Really
> quickly, too.
> 
> However, the hard drive does not seem to fair so well. The hdd
> activity LED remains on and the drive does not seem responsive (but
> spinning). The laptop slows to a crawl and any executable that causes
> disc access (i.e. it's not cached or reads config files etc). Won't
> execute.
> 
> dmesg seems to work, but doesn't really show anything. After the
> "stopping tasks" I get a weird "Back from C!" message, but that's
> about it.
> 
> What could I try from here?

I'd do it from text console, and insert printks just about everywhere
to see what is going on. See if disk is getting interrupts, for
example.

								Pavel
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