ACPI suspend et al

[James McKenzie]

Mark Panen wrote:
[Top posting corrected]
> On Sat, 19 Feb 2005 19:56:31 -0500 (EST), Matthew Saltzman
> <mjs at ces.clemson.edu> wrote:
> 
>>On Sat, 19 Feb 2005, Ed Hill wrote:
>>
>>
>>>On Sat, 2005-02-19 at 13:40 -0700, James McKenzie wrote:
>>>
>>>>It took some work and using a .config from another user, but my IBM
>>>>Thinkpad A22p will suspend/hibernate using Software Suspend 2.  I have
>>>>only one issue, and that is if I suspend while ppp is active.  Since I
>>>>use a script, it should be easy to kill the pppd process and then
>>>>restore it after hibernating or suspending.  I just have to do it.
>>>>--
>>>>James McKenzie
>>>>With assistance, Now running 2.6.11rc3, Software Suspend 2
>>>>and ibm-acpi .1
>>>>Need a home for my .rpm
>>>
>>>
>>>Hi James,
>>>
>>>Are you willing to share your .config file and perhaps some notes on how
>>>you got Software Suspend 2 working?  I also have an A22p and would
>>>*love* to have it working because every FC3 kernel since 2.6.9-1.681_FC3
>>>has suffered from the following APM bug:
>>>
>>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=144415
>>
>>Ed & James (and any other Thinkpad users)-
>>
>>How is your power consumption during ACPI suspend?  Thinkpad users
>>interested in ACPI because of the above APM issue should also track
>>http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3022
>>
>>You'll also want to watch out for the clock skew issue
>>https://bugzilla.redhat.com/beta/show_bug.cgi?id=144822
>>
>>BTW, the devel kernels seem to be recent enough to solve the APM issue for
>>many of us.
>>
 > I tried kernel 2.6.10-1.1146_FC4 and it suspends ok but coming out
 > still freezes, looks like my Acer 1360 does not like the ACPI bit.
 >
 > I would however like to know when i shut  the lid is the totally
 > monitor off and is there any other state as well ?
 >
 > Can i leave my laptop on for 12 hours a day if ACPI does not work or
 > am i shortening the life expectancy ?
 >
What type of video card does this system use?  You might be a victim of 
the dreaded X consuming all cycles bug.  I got around this on my 
Thinkpad A22p by switching to a non-X session (Cntl+Alt+F1) and 
suspending/hibernating from this session.  When I resume, I have to kill 
off gdm to recover, if the video driver is built as a module.  I built 
another kernel with the driver built into the kernel and this seems to 
fix this problem, but brings in other problems.
-- 
James McKenzie
With assistance, Now running 2.6.11rc3, Software Suspend 2
and ibm-acpi .1
Need a home for my .rpm