Re: PARTIAL success with ACPI S3 suspend to ram on Acer TravelMate 800LCi

[Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>]

In message <20031018203409.GN395@elf.ucw.cz> you write:
> Hi!
> 
> > The saga ([0] and [1]) continues, here are the latest facts about ACPI S3
> > suspend to ram mode with the Acer TravelMate 800LCi notebook.
> > 
> > With Linux 2.6.0-test8, there is some kind of partial success: After doing
> > "echo -n mem > /sys/power/state" the box suspends and after pressing a key
> > on the keyboard the box resumes. The box reacts to input afterwards, for
> > example one can do "reboot" as root and even pressing the power key does
> > what it is supposed to do. Unfortunately there is one big disadvantage:
> > The panel of the notebook stays completely black. I tried booting with
> > "acpi_sleep=s3_{mode,boot}" but in both cases, the box apparently hangs
> > while trying to resume (no [blind] keyboard input possible, pressing the
> > power button has no effect)
> 
> Good. [Well, good for me, very bad for you.]
> 
> This is known problem, see below. I don't really know what other dirty
> hack to try. I'm afraid its your turn.
> 
> Rusty, could you make this go in? This is becoming FAQ :-(. Perhaps
> some other ideas can be added if it is in the source tree.

Hmm, prefer not to take it.  Straight to Linus?

Rusty.
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