Re: ACPI suspend Dell 700m 2.6.9 kernel, wont wake up?
the same problem is with my dell inspiron 5150: It doesn't really wake
up probably because of the NVIDIA Graphics chipc (fx5200go)
Any Idea how to wake it up?
On Sun, 19 Dec 2004 09:00:41 -0800, Benedek Frank <bence@celifornia.com> wrote:
> On Sunday 19 December 2004 06:39 am, Pedro Villavicencio Garrido wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Thanks a lot for the link. Believe it or not, now I can resume from a console
> screen at least. That is a great advantage already. With the video_post
> script that was posted on the above link, it does come back up. Of course
> issues remain, as Ethernet is flaky, sometimes comes back, sometimes not,
> etc, but it is already a great step forward.
>
> However, I would still like to know, if it can be done with no usage of such
> 3rd party tools. Is it entirely impossible?
>
> Ben
>
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