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On 1/25/06, Robert Persson <ireneshusband@××××××××.uk> wrote: |
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> Some while back I was trying to get power saving working fully on my desktop |
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> box and I found people talking about swsusp (as opposed to swsusp2) being |
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> part of the official kernel sources. This puzzled me greatly because I have |
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> never come across this option when configuring a kernel. In the end I |
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> resigned myself to it being just one of those things. |
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Its a parameter that should point to an empty partition for the kernel |
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to park RAM information for use in a reboot. Its like specifing a |
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specific hibernation file in windows, you pass the option to use the |
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suspend partition to start the system. |
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> However yesterday, while I was trying in vain to get at least one acpi |
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> function working, I became vastly more perplexed to find that there is |
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> supposed to be a kernel config parameter called CONFIG_ACPI_SLEEP. Again, I |
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> have never come across this option when I have configured a kernel. Yet it is |
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> supposed to be part of the vanilla kernel (e.g. 2.6.15). Am I delusional? |
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I have had my omputer sleep under linux, at least my STR part of it, |
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wakes up on keypress. |
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> I have tried a whole load of other things to get things like acpi sleep |
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> working, such as patching the 2.6.15 kernel with the patches from |
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> acpi.sourceforge.net, making sure APM is disabled, as well as patching the |
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> kernel with a debugged version of my motherboard's DSDT, but nothing gets any |
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> kind of suspend or sleep working. |
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I just enable ACPI |
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> I understand that I should be able to trigger power saving states by writing |
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> to /sys/power/state, but whenever I 'echo -n standby > /sys/power/state' or |
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> 'echo mem > /sys/power/state', even as root, nothing happens. I have checked |
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> the write permissions and they are fine. However 'cat /sys/power/state' |
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> invariably returns 'standby mem', no matter what I do. |
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> acpid works, at least to the extent that the machine will halt when the power |
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> button is pressed. |
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> If I could ditch acpi and get by with apm then I would, however I am not |
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> optimistic about this because apm is supposed not to like multiple processors |
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> and I have a hyperthreading P4. |
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> How am I to get power saving (well, sleep at least) working? |
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> Thanks |
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> Robert |
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> Robert Persson |
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> Conspiracy Bears: |
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> Once upon a time there were lots of conspiracy bears... |
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