Re: can't get linux to perform a bios suspend (was: Re: [FIX, please test] Re: 2.5.70-bk16 - nfs interferes with s4bios suspend)

[CaT <cat@zip.com.au>]

On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 11:50:58AM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > 
> > And it activated bios suspend just fine. It didn't resume properly though.
> > The bios resume screen was left behind and the whole setup hung. I've
> > been using the suspend2disk functionality of this laptop under apm and 2.4.x
> > just fine (for months really - I rarely 'rebooted' my laptop) so I don't
> > think it's the bios that's b0rked.
> 
> And did you use S4bios with 2.4.X? apm and acpi are really different.

No. Never really used acpi under 2.4.x cos it all seemed like a bit mess
to me and the couple of times I tried it it just didn't do much of anything.
apm worked so I stuck with it. When I moved to 2.5.x I decided to test-run
as much as possible and so started using acpi.

As a note: at least the screen displayed and the requirements from the 
bios are both thesame when apm and acpi are used.

> Modification you did is wrong; I'd try
> 
> #ifdef CONFIG_SOFTWARE_SUSPEND
>         if ((state == 4) && (state_string[1] != 'b')) {
> 	        software_suspend();
>                 goto Done;
>         }
> #endif  

I had that in my original testing. It hung. I'll try again and tell
you where.

> Does s3 work for you? s3 and s4bios should be really similar.

Haven't tried s3. Will do so asap.

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