From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 20 00:05:01 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org 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 AE0D916A420 for ; Mon, 20 Feb 2006 00:05:01 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@meijome.net) Received: from sigma.octantis.com.au (ns2.octantis.com.au [207.44.189.124]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A6A143D46 for ; Mon, 20 Feb 2006 00:05:01 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@meijome.net) Received: (qmail 2754 invoked from network); 20 Feb 2006 11:05:00 +1100 Received: from andromeda.lef.com.au (HELO ?10.168.101.24?) (210.8.93.2) by sigma.octantis.com.au with (DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA encrypted) SMTP; 20 Feb 2006 11:05:00 +1100 Message-ID: <43F907A6.1090709@meijome.net> Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 11:04:54 +1100 From: Norberto Meijome User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (X11/20060206) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ian Smith References: <43F834FD.A8A4A7C4@nimnet.asn.au> In-Reply-To: <43F834FD.A8A4A7C4@nimnet.asn.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: APM with Xorg on 5.4-R; Compaq Armada 1500c X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd@meijome.net List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 00:05:01 -0000 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