From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 26 10:04:17 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E2A137B401 for ; Thu, 26 Jun 2003 10:04:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ns3.safety.net (ns3.safety.net [216.40.201.32]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BDB1543FBD for ; Thu, 26 Jun 2003 10:04:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cbiffle@safety.net) Received: from localhost (rs.rackshack.net.safety.net [216.40.201.32]) h5QH4DCk005324; Thu, 26 Jun 2003 10:04:13 -0700 From: "Cliff L. Biffle" To: Stijn Hoop Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2003 10:04:11 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.2 References: <20030626101011.GA65846@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> In-Reply-To: <20030626101011.GA65846@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200306261004.11644.cbiffle@safety.net> cc: mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: laptop suspend states behaviour X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2003 17:04:17 -0000 On Thursday 26 June 2003 03:10 am, Stijn Hoop wrote: > I'm sorry to say that most of the suspend states aren't very useful. Are > people able to use any suspend method on other laptops? Yes. =46rom following this list, it sounds like ACPI in FreeBSD is horribly brok= en on=20 the vast majority of modern laptops. I am fortunate enough not to own mode= rn=20 laptops. :-) On my Toshiba Satellite 1605, ACPI suspend (to RAM and to disk) works=20 flawlessly. It's worth noting that ACPI suspend-to-disk is several times=20 faster than APM suspend-to-disk. This machine now runs Gentoo, however,=20 because of the lurking M5237 USB bug (which I've finally gotten offers for= =20 help on, six months later, but can't have the downtime required to reinstal= l=20 the OS twice to test). On my IBM Thinkpad 755CX, APM suspend (to RAM and to disk) also works=20 flawlessly, and is much faster than the Satellite since it's maxed out with= =20 40MB of RAM. :-) I recently picked up an HP Pavilion N5290 (like the other two, it died and = was=20 discarded by someone who couldn't solder); it's running Gentoo by default=20 after my issues with USB on the Satellite, so I can't comment there. =20 Hardware suspend doesn't work -at- -all- on it in Linux, but software suspe= nd=20 in their kernel does. You just have to manually patch your kernel to do it= =2E =20 Whee. =2DCliff L. Biffle