[ltp] I need some help on ACPI sleep

Winsley von Spee linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Thu, 20 Jan 2005 13:51:16 +0100


Am Donnerstag, den 20.01.2005, 13:09 +0100 schrieb André Wyrwa:
> Hei,
> 
> > The laptop suspends OK but after resume, I get a black screen with two yellow 
> > characters (IN) in the top middle and a blinking white cursor in the top left 
> > of the screen. After about 5 seconds, the laptop reboots on its own.
> 
> The yellow characters are normal. They are part of a line that says
> something with LINUX in it, that's where they come from. I can see this
> also (but a bit more letters) before my X server comes back.
> 
> Since your system reboots automatically, i think it crashes.
> In this case acpi_sleep=s3_bios wouldn't help you, it fixes a different
> problem, where you see nothing on the screen and the system doesn't
> crash/reboot.
hmm ... for me it fixed this prob ... but there may be more than one
chrashing prob ... 
> 
> > I am starting to think that I have done something wrong when compiling my 
> > kernel but I cannot track the problem. Any help or idea on this subject? For 
> > instance, I'd like to be able to look at logs of the resume sequence but I am 
> > not sure what logs I should be looking at...
> 
> Try
> 
> - /var/log/acpi
> - /var/log/kernel.log (or however it's called)
> - dmesg output
> 
>  .
> 
> Also you could post your /etc/acpi/action/sleep.sh script?
> 
> André.
>