Re: Desktop and S3 suspend the Holy Grail of ACPI?

[Nick Lidakis <nlidakis-H+0wwilmMs3R7s880joybQ@public.gmane.org>]

Pavel Machek wrote:

>Hi!
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>>>>I am new to ACPI but I have searched the archives, looked at the MAN 
>>>>pages used Google to the best of
>>>>my abilities and I still have some questions about ACPI. My basic goal 
>>>>is to be able
>>>>to suspend my desktop machine to S3 when not in use. I need to use the
>>>>machine several times throughout the day, and feel it is a waste to leave
>>>>it on continuously. The system spec are: Intel D875PBZ, Intel P4 3GHZ,
>>>>Radeonm 9700 pro, Sounblaster Live, Debian unstable with 2.4.23 and
>>>>2.6.2 kernels available, both with ACPI compiled as modules. Pressing
>>>>the power button once gracefully shuts down the machine running either 
>>>>kernel.
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>>>Try getting suspend-to-disk working, first.
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>>I am assuming your terse response is meant to imply that swsusp would be 
>>a better alternative to S3?
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>I mean that swsusp is easier to make going than S3, and it is quite
>usefull to know if it works for you. If it does not, its unlikely that
>S3 will.
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>>I tried playing with suspend to disk in kernel 2.6.3. It was a no go. I 
>>have highmem enabled on this machine which has 1 gig of RAM.
>>Going to try pmdisk.
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>Forget pmdisk, that will not work anyway. Try running without highmem
>(at least for a test).
>								Pavel
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Should I also disable preemption?


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