Hey, On Sat, 2004-12-18 at 22:57 -0800, Benedek Frank wrote: > Hi > > On my Dell 700m I am trying to make suspend work. The battery life is just > horrible, 2 hours flat, so suspend is a must. > > I installed a 2.6.9 kernel. When I do a suspend to memory > > echo "mem" > /sys/power/state > > It goes into suspend and the power light starts to blink. That is perfect. > However, when I press any key, nothing happenes. The machine does not > respond. If I close the lid and open it back up, the power light becomes > solid (not blinking), but the machine does not come back alive, or at least I > cannot see anything on the display. > > When I press the power button, while the machine is suspended, the light comes > solid and the machine starts to work hard. But, instead of coming back live, > it shuts down. Do I miss something ? Like a script for the "lid" event ? > Please educate me, as I dont know. > > By the way, I also compiled a kernel with the swsusp2 patch, and it looked > good, but that was way to serious of a suspend for me, it actually shuts the > machine down. It must be great for a suspend when you are on a deserted > island, but all I need is a suspend for a few hours, so to memory is fine > enough. I have a Dell too but a C600 anyway, try this http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3670 that works for me. Have you tried APM?, APM works really cool for me. Greetings. -- Pedro Villavicencio Garrido http://zapdos.codemonkey.cl
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