Re: Acer Aspire 1690 Suspend/Hibernate Report with 2.6.29-rc3

["Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>]

On Sunday 08 February 2009, Pavel Machek wrote:
> On Sat 2009-02-07 14:24:17, Daniel Qarras wrote:
> > Hi!
> > 
> > > > Just a FYI, with my Acer Aspire 1690 using 2.6.29-rc3
> > > > suspend/hibernate behave in this manner:
> > > > 
> > > > Hibernation completes ok but resumes immediately as if
> > > > I would have pressed the power button.
> > 
> > Thanks a lot for the tip, indeed it makes hibernation working again:
> > 
> > root@localhost:~# echo shutdown > /sys/power/disk
> > root@localhost:~# pm-hibernate
> > 
> > Great! Is there a way to make this default on my system, e.g., with a quirk?
> 
> Well, it would be better to fix it properly, than just work around it
> with quirk. I think it worked before and you already identified commit
> that breaks it?

That was the patch that made hibernation use ACPI to enter S4.  IOW, the thing
has never worked on this machine.

Thanks,
Rafael