Re: Test patch for sleep on Aluminium PowerBooks

[Luis Sanjuan <lj.sanjuan@ya.com>]

On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 02:04:43PM +0100, Sebastian Henschel wrote:
> hello...
> 
> * Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> [2004-11-11 13:15 +0100]:
> > On Thu, 2004-11-11 at 03:01 -0200, Federico Gamio wrote:
> > > 
> > > My 15" PowerBook (5,2) (1.25Ghz) can't resume from sleep.
> 
> [...]
> 
> i can assert that on some occasions (also 5,2). mostly, it works, but
> sometimes, when the machine has been slept for quite some time, the
> machine seems to awake (disc spins up), but the display stays dark. 

Same here (PowerBook5,3 + pbbuttons + USB mouse), only a couple of times. 
Normally it works perfectly. Because I've no idea what could be the cause 
neither how to reproduce it, I haven't yet reported it. 

> i did not bark yet, because i did not figure out what causes this
> behaviour. i suspect USB to be the culprit, because sometimes i have a
> Sharp Zaurus or a USB mouse attached to the machine. suspend/resume
> is experimental for USB, anyway.
> 
> > It may be waking up, but with the brightness left at 0... try pressing
> > repeately on "low brightness" until it reaches 0, then slowly back up.
> 
> i should try that.
> 
> > I'm not sure what's up, it works fine for others with the same machine,
> > I've been reported.
> 
> aight, works fine in most cases.
> 
> thank you very much,
>  Sebastian
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