Sony VAIO - suspend/resume works, but SLOW

[Eric Anderson]

Nate Lawson wrote:
> Eric Anderson wrote:
> 
>> Fabian Keil wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> If I didn't overlook it, your kernel lacks "device pmtimer".
>>> Without it, I get the symptoms you described.
>>
>>
>>
>> Right you are.  I've just added it - rebuilding kernel now.
>>
>> How are others keeping their custom kernel config up-to-date?  This 
>> seems like a real issue to me, unless there's a tool to do this 
>> already and I'm just not using it.  I cp GENERIC, make my changes, and 
>> move on. As my machine tracks -CURRENT, the GENERIC kernel changes, 
>> but my custom config stays the same (I never 'merge' any changes in).
>>
>> Thanks Fabian for the hint..
> 
> 
> My kernel config begins with:
> 
> include GENERIC
> nodevice aac
> etc.
> 
> Check out the PAE kernel config to see the syntax.
> 

Thanks - I'll give that a try, seems like an elegant solution.

Back to the original subject - I've added the pmtimer to my kernel, and 
now it does resume and act normal - yea!

A couple things I noticed now:
- after resume, system won't reboot.  It goes through the entire 
process, but stops after the "Rebooting...".  I have to manually power 
off the machine, and power it back on.

- when in X, and I do acpiconf -s3, it does indeed suspend.  Resuming 
appears to be coming back, but my xwindows is locked up (no mouse 
movement, no screen updates, and a little screen distortion at the top - 
so a video driver issue?).  My caps lock and num lock keys seemed to 
work, but I couldn't break from X.  I think did the (not so smart) break 
to debugger, which left me in a state I couldn't recover from.  Reboot 
ensued.  I have a Radeon card in this laptop.

So two questions:
When does one need the reset_video switch on/off?

What's the next logical step in debugging this?


Thanks!
Eric



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Eric Anderson        Sr. Systems Administrator        Centaur Technology
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