Re: Dell 700m KDE startup to sleep state - crashing - acpi help ?
Suspend to disk on dell inspiron 1150 works for me, using kernel 2.6.13.4 with acpi patch 2.6.13
On Thu, 10 Nov 2005 14:26:38 -0600
gabaod gabaod <gabaod@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello i have a dell inspirion 700m
> kernel 2.6.11.12 <http://2.6.11.12> debian 1:3.3.5-13
> kde version 44
> kde base 3.3.2-1
> acpid 1.0.4-1
> I have not yet installed acpi, since im running stable, and havent had
> time to be around an internet connection on laptop to install that pkg.
> But this is the scenario.
> I turn on laptop, login, run 'startx' and during the 'initializing
> peripherals' startup part.. it goes to a black screen stating Stopping
> tasks: ===================
> and it fails on stopping mysql for some reason.. Ill figure that out
> later..
> then it goes back to the startup screen for kde and logs in fine.
> Now if i manual stop mysql '/etc/init.d/mysql stop' before running 'startx'
> it goes to black screen Stopping Tasks: and i quickly see something about
> eth1 suspend and my screen goes blank on me. No keys will wake it up, and my
> only option is hitting power button which halts the laptop and have to
> re-power it on.
> Now i noticed when i have mysql running.. and do do a echo 1 >
> /proc/acpi/sleep It does the EXACT same thing as previously, so obviously
> somewhere kde is wanting to put my laptop into some sort of sleep mode upon
> startup.
> Any idea where to look to find out where that setting is defined to not
> have it start in a sleep state? also why can I not wake up the laptop? only
> thing I can presume is its trying S3 state, since thats only one ive found
> that my laptop doesnt support. All ACPI/suspend stuff is hard-compiled into
> a custom kernel, i have not installed acpi or suspend2 packages as of this
> time.
> Mainly just wanting help on how to control ACPI, would love to get
> hibernation, suspend to work on the laptop, and most of the HOWTOs im
> finding are how to install them.. but nothing about how to control them
> except for a manual 'echo' cmd.
> and one last thing.. in my dmesg output, i do see this:
> PM: Readomg swsusp image.
> swsusp: Resume From Partition /dev/hda16
> <3>swsusp: Suspend partition has wrong signature?
> swsusp: Error -22 resuming
> hda16 is my /home dir, and i know i set that in the kernel .config file.. i
> remember reading something that i need to create a flat file container or
> something for that to work, but cant find any reference as how to get that
> part to work as well, and maybe thats whats causing kde to sleep on startup?
> not sure.
> btw im pretty new to the whole gui and laptop side of debian so i might
> just be missing something simple in some window in kde, just have kde on to
> web program locally, mainly know the server side stuff via shell :)
> thanks.
> -paul
>
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