Re: hibernation on a desktop? Suspend-to-RAM on a desktop?
On Sun, 10 Sep 2000, Philipp Schulte wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 05:59:38PM -0700, Krzys Majewski wrote:
>
> > Sep 8 17:50:11 mi apmd[1744]: User Suspend
> > Sep 8 17:50:13 mi kernel: apm: busy: Unable to enter requested state
>
> I get the exact message. I am sure it is a BIOS problem here. Did you
> enable APM in your BIOS? What does /proc/apm say?
It says, quote: "1.13 1.2 0x07 0x01 0xff 0x80 -1% -1 ?"
> > What happens is, the disk shuts down (woo!), the screen fails to blank (suck..)
> > and about two seconds later the disk, and everything else, starts up
> > again. Any ideas? -chris
>
> Well, the disk starts again, if it has to read or write
> something. Maybe your system is swapping and that causes the disk to
> start up?
I've improved this significantly by mounting all partitions with
"sync" and "noatime".
The screen blanking problem I can live with because it does eventually
blank on its own (I think the xset +dpms defaults to "standby" and
"suspend" after 1200 and 1800 seconds, respectively.
What I would like now is for the cpu fan to shutdown
(presumably after the cpu has entered a sufficiently low-power
mode or shut down completely), although I don't even know if
this is possible with APM. Sometimes I really wish manpages
were written by people with less clue, sigh.
-chris
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