I also have bad experiences with ACPI on a Dell Inspiron 8200: - The boot-sccreen just takes half the size of the display just as the "normal" terminal-screens do. - The "suspend" and "setup" buttons do not work anymore - echo -n "mem" > /sys/power/state works but on powewr-up, the screen is flickering... Am Fr, den 21.05.2004 schrieb Norman Gaywood um 7:34: > I have a partial answer (to myself). > > On Fri, May 21, 2004 at 01:54:19PM +1000, Norman Gaywood wrote: > > I have acpid running. I can see that hitting the suspend button on my > > laptop triggers an event: > > > > [Fri May 21 13:34:44 2004] received event "button/sleep SBTN 00000080 00000001" > ... > > [Fri May 21 13:34:44 2004] completed event "button/sleep SBTN 00000080 00000002" > > > I can also see I need to put something in /etc/acpi/events/ to tell the > > system to suspend on the event. > > > > What command should I use to suspend? > > You can tell what sleep options your ACPI BIOS supports with: "cat > /proc/acpi/sleep". My Dell C600 laptop says: > > S0 S1 S3 S4 S4bios S5 > > An S3 is a software suspend I believe. This is what I think I had going > before in RH8.0/RH9/FC1 when I hit the "suspend button". > > In the 2.6 kernel with ACPI, you can start a suspend by doing: > > echo 3 > /proc/acpi/sleep > > But that is not the whole story. X on my system does not handle this > properly. Perhaps I need to do some sort of preparation before the echo 3? > > I'm beginning to get the feeling that suspend has not quite been finished > in the 2.6 kernel. > > I wonder why (software) suspend worked reasonably well for me in the > 2.4 kernel of RH8.0/9 and FC1? > > -- > Norman Gaywood, Systems Administrator > School of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science > University of New England, Armidale, NSW 2351, Australia > > norm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Phone: +61 (0)2 6773 2412 > http://turing.une.edu.au/~norm Fax: +61 (0)2 6773 3312 > > Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. > See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html -- Jochen Witte <devnull@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
