I have an HP Compaq NC6000 laptop and I have some problems getting it to suspend. I am running the stock Debian 2.6.9 kernel (in the 686 variant, currently not sure whether it is version 1 or 2).
If I run apm (setting kernel parameters acpi=off and apm=on, loads the apm module and starts apmd) I can suspend the laptop by issuing the command "apm -s". If I run acpi (no special kernel parameters, starting acpid which loads a bunch of kernelmodules) I can not get it to suspend. First of all, there does not seem to be an equivalent of "apm -s" for acpi. The "acpi" command only reports stuff like battery status and temperatures. There is a file /proc/acpi/sleep but trying various values (0-5) only one makes it blank the screen, but the power led is staedy green (it blinks with "apm -s") and there is apparently no way to get it back to life, other than cycling power and rebooting which kinds of defeats the purpose of suspending :-) So the questions goes: is this a shortcoming with the HP not being properly supported with acpi, am I missing some command like "apm" which is able to do what I want or is this simply acpi not really having caught up with apm yet? PS Yes, I know of the swsusp but I would much prefer a solution that did not require rebuilding the kernel as the distributed kernels (AFAIK) does have these options enabled. I also know that I could just use apm but acpi seems to be much better at managing the fans, with apm they seemed to run at full speed, not that I has been digging very much into that yet. ------------------------+----------------------------------------------------- Christian Lynbech | christian #\@ defun #\. dk ------------------------+----------------------------------------------------- Hit the philistines three times over the head with the Elisp reference manual. - [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael A. Petonic) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]