I've been using apm to suspend to ram and it's been working... I have not tried to suspend to disk. When the computer comes back up after being suspended often there is a flickering on the left of the screen or sometimes the whole screen is vertically offset (the lowest portion of the screen on top and the topmost below that), I usually do strl-alt-f1 and then ctrl-alt-f7 and it fixes it. I have had a problem where the lcd backlight shuts off and wont come back on when I come out of suspend, log out (and gdm restarts), or switch to a text terminal and then back to X. I had this problem under windows XP a couple times as well and am inclined to believe it's a hardware problem. The monitor always seems on the verge of going kaput on this laptop.
On Wed, Apr 21, 2004 at 02:06:48PM -0500, dircha wrote: > I've struggled more than I care to admit with power management on my > 8200, to the point that in large part I gave up on it. I wonder whether > you have had any better luck. > > What solution are you using: apm or acpi? > > Suspending to disk has never worked with APM, I believe because of a > BIOS issue on this laptop. I had suspend to ram working for a while with > APM, but it was never more than 60% reliable. > > I haven't been able to get either suspend to ram or suspend to disk to > work with ACPI. > > And on top of all of this, I had to send my 8200 in for repairs in > January and they upgraded my BIOS. As best as I can tell, since about > this time every time I close the lid the computer goes into a suspend > state from which it cannot recover and must be reset with the power > button, even though in the BIOS I have specified that it should take no > action when the lid is closed. > > Not to mention the ongoing history of problems with APM/ACPI and the > Nvidia drivers, having for the longest time to modify the sources to > have any hope of even suspend to ram. > > I just don't have time to be wrestle with it any more, and use it more > or less as a desktop replacement only now. > > _at least_ having suspend to ram is very important for unplugged use - > i.e. for use as anything but a desktop replacement. > > Thanks, > > dircha > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- Christopher H. De Vries Phone: (617) 496-7636 Postdoctoral Fellow FAX: (617) 495-7345 Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 60 Garden Street MS-42 Cambridge, MA 02138 cfa-www.harvard.edu/~cdevries/
