[ltp] X20 freezes on acpi suspend to RAM

[Stefan Blum]

No, you're right - I meant while the machine is suspended...
I'll try to unload pcmcia (and network) before suspend and I might give FC3 a 
try...

Thanks!

Stefan

On Monday 10 January 2005 20:07, Charles E Taylor IV wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 18:22:55 +0100
>
> Stefan Blum <stefan.blum@gmx.de> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I just wanted to check back and see if you made any progress so far with
> > the  power-managemant.
> > I now run the X20 with acpi disabled - and apm-suspend under 2.6.9
> > basically  works, I can suspend the notebook and it wakes up fine -
> > however, there seems  to be a fan running all the time and the
> > network-LED is at all times. Any thoughts as to what is causing the fan
> > to run? Is the LED supposed to be  on during suspend?
>
> As a followup, my wife's X20 seems to work fine with APM suspend-to-ram
> (Fn-F4 or lid close) and suspend-to-disk (Fn-F12) using kernel 2.6.9 as
> provided in Fedora Core 3.
>
> The only extra configuration I had to do was:
>
> * Pass acpi=off to the kernel on booting
> * Write a hibernation file using the tphdisk.c utility (for
> suspend-to-disk)
> * Unload the pcmcia service before suspend-to-ram (for suspend-to-disk
> this was not an issue).  This may be an issue only on Fedora Core, though.
>  Basically, I modified the apm scripts to do this for me.  I'll put the
> detaila on my web site (url below) when I have the time.
>
> Other notes:
> - APM suspend-to-disk basically always works,  I've not had it fail yet.
> - APM suspend-to-ram has failed on me once so far - when I suspended while
> docked and on AC power and then resumed while off the dock and on
> battery power.  Machine locked once like that with the moon flashing.
> - Fan doesn't appear to run while the machine is suspended (I may be
> mininterpreting what you wrote above - do you mean while running or while
> suspended?)
> - Network light stays on during suspend if there's a network cable
> connected. This might be normal.  Can't the notebook be set to resume on
> network activity?
>
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