Re: Test8 suspend fails if laptop lid closed.

[Nigel Cunningham <ncunningham@clear.net.nz>]

A couple of us have seen the same thing under 2.4. I've found a hack
solution for my laptop, but need to investigate more. It certainly looks
like an ACPI problem from here.

Regards,

Nigel

On Wed, 2003-10-22 at 19:22, Rob Landley wrote:
> Interesting.  Suspend to disk (echo -n disk > /sys/power/state) works just 
> fine as long as I keep the laptop open until it powers down.  (I timed it, it 
> takes 35 seconds by the way.  Over half of this is "freeing memory" without 
> the hard drive light actually going...)
> 
> If I close the lid while it's busy suspend, it won't.  It'll almost suspend, 
> but the CPU power will stay on, the fan will stay running, and the backlight 
> will stay on even though the screen is otherwise black.  Only thing to do 
> then is hold the power button down for ten seconds until it fully powers off, 
> then reboot it.
> 
> It works reliably so far if I leave the lid open, and fails reliably with the 
> lid closed before it's actually done suspending.  This is on a thinkpad 
> iSeries 1200 something.  (Serial number starting with 1171 6xu, from which 
> the model number can be googled for if it matters...)
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Rob
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