From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Len Brown Subject: LED suspend inicator (Re: Suspend locks up Toshiba Satelite L355-S7915 (no longer)) Date: Sun, 08 Nov 2009 11:37:50 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: References: <200911051928.38825.kencx@peak.org> <200911070809.23947.kencx@peak.org> <200911071930.50420.kencx@peak.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Return-path: Received: from vms173019pub.verizon.net ([206.46.173.19]:39070 "EHLO vms173019pub.verizon.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753303AbZKHQh7 (ORCPT ); Sun, 8 Nov 2009 11:37:59 -0500 Received: from localhost.localdomain ([74.104.150.83]) by vms173019.mailsrvcs.net (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 6.3-7.04 (built Sep 26 2008; 32bit)) with ESMTPA id <0KSS006ZVU74F0O4@vms173019.mailsrvcs.net> for linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org; Sun, 08 Nov 2009 10:37:55 -0600 (CST) In-reply-to: <200911071930.50420.kencx@peak.org> Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: Ken Corbin Cc: Alexey Starikovskiy , linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org > > 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? > 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? _SST, mentioned above, is the standard method to control the suspend indicator LED, and has been included in the generic part of Linux for a long time. -Len