Re: ACPI and suspend

[Derek Broughton <dbroughton@netcom.ca>]

Walt Mankowski wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 30, 2002 at 03:06:56PM -0500, Derek Broughton wrote:
>
> > Except that, afaik, BIOS suspend-to-disk simply isn't a possibility if 
> > you have an ACPI bios
>
> That's not completely true.  I have a Compaq Presario 1700, ACPI only.
> I dual-boot between Win 98 and Debian potato.  I'm still running a
> 2.2.* kernel so I don't have ACPI support in Linux, although I of
> course do in Windows.

OK, I stood prepared to be corrected there.  My Dell Inspiron 2500 
certainly doesn't do it in the BIOS - though I haven't figured out _how_ 
it does it in Windows (not the same way as others have reported...)

> Surprisingly, suspend-to-disk mostly works for me under Linux, with
> two minor exceptions:
>
> 1.  I have to be out at the console when I hit the key.  If I'm in X,
>     the box hangs.  I can be running X, just need to Ctrl-Alt-F* to a
>     console window first.
>
> 2.  It doesn't reset the time when it starts back up.  I've gotten
>     into the habit of running "hwclock --hctosys" as soon as I
>     restart.

I have that same problem with S1 state.  I really need to put the 
hwclock invocation into acpid

> Other than that, suspend-to-disk works great.  Now if I could only
> tell how much battery life I have left... :-)

I haven't tried the ACPI 0329 patch yet, but the previous one can't even 
insmod acpi_battery, so I have the same problem.
--
derek


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