From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ken Corbin Subject: Re: Suspend locks up Toshiba Satelite L355-S7915 (no longer) Date: Sat, 7 Nov 2009 19:30:50 -0800 Message-ID: <200911071930.50420.kencx@peak.org> References: <200911051928.38825.kencx@peak.org> <200911070809.23947.kencx@peak.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mailscanner1.peak.org ([69.59.192.37]:46478 "EHLO mailscanner1.peak.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751832AbZKHDb4 (ORCPT ); Sat, 7 Nov 2009 22:31:56 -0500 In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: Len Brown Cc: Alexey Starikovskiy , linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org On Saturday 07 November 2009 18:44:46 Len Brown wrote: > > > There are other problems, but they are minor and can be lived with. Most > > hotkeys do not work. And the computer doesn't flash the power button > > when it is suspended. There is a omnibook module that purports do do > > these functions, but it isn't coded to work with the Satelite L355-S7915. > > I've been looking into fixing that. But it has occurred to me that that > > driver is largely duplicating standard acpi functions. And that it might > > be a better use of my time to look into configuring acpi to work with > > this laptop. Any recommendations? > > Generally the platform drivers implement support for non-standard > features that are not included in the generic ACPI support. > Often the non-standard support is implemented with vendor-specific > extensions to ACPI. > > Unfortunately, except in a few cases, hotkeys are non-standard. > So extending the platform driver for boxes similar to your own > to talk to your box may be the way to go.. > > The LED indicator on sleeping, however, is generally standard > (there is a method called "_SST" that we invoke that tells the BIOS > to start & stop blinking the suspend LED) > > Do you know if the LED blinked when Windows suspended on this laptop? > > cheers, > Len Brown, Intel Open Source Technology Center The LED blinks when suspended under Windows. It also blinks, at a much slower rate, when suspended in Ubuntu of I have the omnibook module loaded. I'm still looking at how it does that. Is this something that we should expect the stock acpi process to take care of? Have a nice day, -Ken > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html