FC7 request -- Make it so that /proc/acpi/wakeup flags are automatically enabled for USB and mousepad devices at boot time

[Miles Lane]

On 4/24/07, Bill Nottingham <notting at redhat.com> wrote:
> Dave Jones (davej at redhat.com) said:
> >  > I am running the development packages on my HP Pavilion dv1240us.
> >  > If I suspend using System-->Suspend, I cannot wake up the machine
> >  > by using the mousepad or inserting a USB device.  After harassing the
> >  > ACPI development folks, I found out that I needed to enable the
> >  > corresponding flags in /proc/acpi/wakeup.  Can we please tweak FC7
> >  > so that these ACPI flags are set automatically at boot time?
> >
> > They're set by the BIOS.   Some of them will allow you to configure them there.

My Phoenix BIOS doesn't appear to support modifying those values.  I
suppose there might be some utility that would modify the flags.  I'll
look around on the web.

> Moreover, the names aren't necessarily consistent across machines.

Yeah.  Luckily, this issue will go away in an upcoming kernel.  I
don't know how long it will take for these changes to make it into a
Linus release, though.  See here:

         http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8286

All the best,
         Miles