Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 06:02:47 +1100 (EST) From: Ian Smith <smithi@nimnet.asn.au> To: Norberto Meijome <freebsd@meijome.net> Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: [SOLVED] APM with Xorg on 5.4-R; Compaq Armada 1500c Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.1060223051818.27201C-100000@gaia.nimnet.asn.au> In-Reply-To: <43F907A6.1090709@meijome.net>
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Replying to the same message again, but with better news this time :) Sufficiently desperate googling and browsing of the FLCL through various later-model Compaq laptops led me to: http://gerda.univie.ac.at/freebsd-laptops/index.pl?action=show_laptop_detail&laptop=637 which states simply: - options SC_NO_SUSPEND_VTYSWITCH is needed for suspend/resume from X. which fixes my problem, through quite a bit of testing since building the kernel (though I did add APM and VESA to it also, if it matters). Wonder if this might help your problem too? I only found out later that this was documented in syscons(4) in '03, and you can set it by sysctl .. ah well, it was good to build its first 2MB-leaner kernel anyway. Still issues suspending / resuming with a mounted a) external USB HD with an msdosfs, b) floppy disk (also msdosfs) and perhaps c) a CDROM, in that mounted fs - still reported as such by mount - is not 'there', attempts to umount it fail, and umount -f panics! but meanwhile I just Won't Do That .. the basic system I need to use seems otherwise solid. Thanks again for the encouragement given by your response, cheers, Ian On Mon, 20 Feb 2006, Norberto Meijome wrote: > Ian Smith wrote: > > Hoping someone here still runs any old but good kit .. > > > > Carefully, but too often, swapping this laptop HD between my still trusty > > 4.5-R on 4GB drive for real work, and a recently-installed 5.4-R on 40GB. > > > > APM has worked rock-solid here for 3+ years; living on solar power means > > depending on being able to hit the suspend button anytime, off or on, and > > having it nod off readily and safely while on battery in the field. I > > usually run many-month uptimes, perhaps restarting kde on XF86 monthly, > > every day suspending/resuming several times, logging battery states .. > > > > But APM on 5.4-R - which after loading apm + apmd worked out of the box on > > vtys - while using Xorg (6.8.2) fails to suspend | resume cleanly: suspend > > can take half to one minute to poweroff (no disk activity), and it always > > locks right up on resume; X screen intact but kbd (except BIOS keys) and > > mouse gone, speaker stuck on a high tone even trying to blind switch to a > > vty to reboot cleanly; way too flakey to consider for workaday use. > > > FWIW, i have similar problems with APM (ACPI is a dud on my laptop :( ). > Toshiba Tecra A2, latest Xorg, FBSD 6.1 prerel-#1 > Works ok if suspending from syscon, but via X it just locks up and goes > on with a beeeeppppp (doesnt even suspend). the worst part is when I'm > running out of battery and working in X...it tries to go to sleep and > just dies on me. not happy jen. :) > > I sent more info on this issue on this post: > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=47971+52883+/usr/local/www/db/text/2006/freebsd-mobile/20060219.freebsd-mobile > > not sure where to go from here. > cheers, > Beto >
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