On Thursday 05 May 2005 11:27 am, John O'Hagan wrote: > Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: > >Why don't you modify his script to unload the psmouse module before > >hibernating and load it on resume ? > > This made no difference - whether the touchpad-related modules are left > loaded, or unloaded before or after suspend, then reloaded. I also tried > unloading the usb modules, as I read that they can be a problem, but to no > avail. I suspect that the root of the problem is the process by which the > devices in /dev/input are recreated (by udev, I guess?) after a > suspend-to-ram; this is still a mystery to me, but I have a few leads. > AFAIK, module loading/unloading isn't related to PID at all. Hence I don't think udev should be the problem. What does confuse me is that if it really has to be unloaded then how does it allow on my notebook. > (I should clarify that I am concentrating on suspend-to-ram only; I have > had some success with suspend-to-disk but it takes longer than a reboot and > scrambles the modules; I'm sure they can be unscrambled with a script, but > I don't think I would use it at that speed!) > Amazing that it takes more time :-) > >[...] KDE's klaptop daemon is quite enough to > >handle all my acpi/power related issues. Try it. > > I am also a KDE user (and fan!); but klaptop suspend/hibernate do not work > for me, the cd drive spins and lights flash on attempted resume but the > machine does not wake up - perhaps, as David Härdeman suggested, my > hardware does not yet have kernel support. > From your first post, I presume your hardware is very identical to mine. You can double check it at the documentation at my website. > >What Software Suspend version are you using ? Is it a module or compiled > > in into the kernel ? > > It's enabled in my kernel config. (2.6.11) - compiled-in, as I don't think > it can be compiled as a module. I also have acpi_sleep enabled. > > >[...] What acpi modes does your > >machine support ? > > It is a "whitebox" machine, and the manufacturers aren't speaking to me > since I let it slip that I use Gnu-Linux (apparently that is subversive!), > so I can only guess that S1 works (screen blanking is OK), S3 is available > because the indicator flashes correctly during a suspend (only the touchpad > fails on resume), and S4 is hibernate. Naturally, S0 and S5, too. Is this > what you are asking about? And, do you know of a way to test for which > modes are supported? > When the kernel loads the acpi subsystem it will tell you what modes your hardware supports. You can find it in your `dmesg`. Also /sys/power/state can tell you what modes are supported. > Thank you for all your suggestions; I will struggle on! :) > > John HTH, rrs -- Ritesh Raj Sarraf RESEARCHUT -- http://www.researchut.com Gnupg Key ID: 04F130BC "Stealing logic from one person is plagiarism, stealing from many is research." "Necessity is the mother of invention."
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