Date: Wed, 29 Oct 1997 16:57:00 -0700 (MST) From: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> To: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> Cc: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>, mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Suspend/resume in -current: still no joy Message-ID: <199710292357.QAA14798@rocky.mt.sri.com> In-Reply-To: <199710292353.PAA03250@austin.polstra.com> References: <199710291919.MAA13105@rocky.mt.sri.com> <199710292353.PAA03250@austin.polstra.com>
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> OK. :-) Here's something else to think about. Sometimes it looks as > though the machine has started to suspend, but then gets yanked back > to life. Once I watched it almost-suspend for maybe 10 seconds before > hearing the disk spin up again all by itself. (I say "almost" suspend > because I'm pretty sure the suspend light never came on.) OK. > What I'm getting at is this: The manual for the ThinkPad 560 says > that an incoming call on the modem can wake up the machine when it is > in the suspended state. I'm having problems only with the modem card, > not with the ethernet card. On most machines, this can be disabled in the BIOS. (I think you can get to it in Win95). Can you try disabling it? > Could it be that the card is emitting a > spurious indication of an incoming call, due to some error in the way > it's being shut down? Sure, then the APM bios won't allow it to shut down, and we have all sorts of weirdness going on. Error handling from un-successful attempts are currently pretty weak. Nate
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