No resume on Acer Aspire 5101AWLMi (6.2-RELEASE)

[Andrew]

On Sun, 01 Apr 2007 13:20:00 -0700, Nate Lawson <nate at root.org> wrote:

> If you don't get a beep at all, something is hanging before FreeBSD even
> gets control.  Try removing extra hardware, compiling out various device
> drivers, etc.
>
> STR is very hard to get right given the wide number of BIOS-specific
> bugs that we can't even see from the OS.  Add to that the immature state
> of many X/display drivers in supporting resume and you can understand
> why even Linux, which has 10x the developers and assistance from Intel
> employees still has a lot of the same problems.


Hi, thanks for your replies.

There is an update: I have found that if I issue "acpiconf -s 3" from
the KDE Konsole (rather than the VGA console), the laptop goes to
sleep correctly AND it even wakes up. Unfortunately, when it wakes up,
all window decorations and fonts are corrupt (desktop background and
icons are OK). Killing kdm-bin and X and then restarting them does not
fix the problem.

What I find strange, is that KDE seems to make part of the resume
process work, while the computer hangs if the suspend/resume is
handled only from the VGA console.

I can testify that this laptop used to suspend/resume flawlessly under
Kubuntu. That and the lack of errors when compiling acpidump's output
lead me to think that the problem might not lie in Acer's ACPI bytecode.

I'll post my experiments and findings, but at the kernel level I think
there's not much I can strip away because it's already very bare-bones
now.


Bye,
Andrew