On Fri, 17 Sep 2004 17:54:32 -0400, Adam Garside <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Sep 17, 2004 at 10:59:41PM +0200, Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo wrote: > > If I make echo 3 > /proc/acpi/sleep it starts to go sleeping, but it > > fails. > Well, Dell BIOS's are notoriously broken. You might try some of the > things at acpi.sourceforge.net or use software suspend. > > asg >
One thing I learned that may be of value on a non-dell laptop was that I had a device or two that would fail to suspend when I did an acpi suspend event. I just read over your email and noticed this line: Could not suspend device 0000:00:1d.7: error -5 Perhaps if you compared this to running lspci you could locate the device that is giving problems? I've seen USB and some other controllers which seem to have problems going into suspend. Also, you don't state what kernel you are running. On a thinkpad t23 laptop with the latest bios and power management upgrades, the kernel acpi would fail and leave me with kernel panics all the time or the suspend would just fail. I run debian unstable here so I downloaded a vanilla 2.6.8.1 kernel and then patched it with the acpi.sf.net latest acpi patch. I also have tried softwaresuspend2 and am still working on that one. With the latest kernel and the latest acpi sources patched, my T23 sleeps just fine. I do have one device which will not suspend correctly which is the linuxant driverloader module. I have to remove it by running a command line tool and then putting the laptop to sleep. I also found this little command line tool called acpitool which is very handy for this stuff. I don't recall the url but you should be able to find it on google. -- Michael Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED]
