Suspend/sleep/hibernate on Dell i8200 with FC2

[Ow Mun Heng]

On Wed, 2004-06-16 at 13:39, D. D. Brierton wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-06-16 at 21:15, Ow Mun Heng wrote:
> > Actually, based on this user's experience (googled -> Linux + inspiron
> > 8200)
> > 
> > http://jpstrand.homeip.net/user/delli8200/delli8200.html
> > 
> > APM works better than acpi. Suspending works using APM compared to ACPI.
> 
> Yes, I'd already seen that page. But if you notice it was last updated
> in May 2003. It seems that the last time he tried ACPI the 2.6 kernel
> hadn't even come out yet, and I know that there have been significant
> improvements since then. I believe that is why it is now compiled into
> Fedora kernels and enabled by default, and also why I wanted to give it
> a try.
> 
> > > > It's enabled for it. but only 1 is working. Usually for FC(1 | 2) you
> > > > have to pass acpi=on as a kernel parameter before acpi kicks in.
> > > 
> > > I think that I read that in FC2 acpi=on is the default, and that you
> > > actually have to specifically switch it off with acpi=off. Can someone
> > > confirm that?
> > 
> > Hmm.. try this.. I may be wrong, see if you get anyhing under 
> > 
> > /proc/acpi
> 
> There's lots and lots of stuff under /proc/acpi:
> 
> $ ls -R /proc/acpi/
> /proc/acpi/:
> ac_adapter  battery  embedded_controller  fan             processor
> alarm       button   event                info            sleep
> asus        dsdt     fadt                 power_resource  thermal_zone


Yeah.. ACPI is turned on..

Now, all you need is some scripts..
You can use mine.. which I'm sending Off-line.

use them as reference.
> 
> I notice that there is /proc/acpi/button/lid/LID/state. I guess I could
> just try shutting the lid and seeing what happens!
> 
> Best, Darren
> 
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