Suspend on SMP: Progress?

Jesse Sheidlower jester at panix.com
Fri Apr 27 20:11:26 UTC 2007


This is a partial repost of a question I sent to
freebsd-mobile; sorry to show upon on this technical
list with a newbie question.

Basically, has there been any progress on suspend/resume on
SMP laptops? I have a Lenovo T60 (Intel Core 2 Duo) running
FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE. Pretty much everything is fine except
suspend/resume, which doesn't work at all. Sending an
"acpiconf -s 3" causes a hard lockup for which pulling the
battery seems to be the only solution.

I see the discussion from back in October, but I can't tell if
anything has been done since. I'd be more than happy to track
7.0 if it would help; if there are any kludges that would
enable me to suspend the machine, I'll do them. Right now I'm
stuck with what is in effect a portable desktop--the need to
power down and reboot every time I move it makes it pretty
useless for actual travel. My fault for not looking into this
enough before buying it; for some reason I had the idea that
it would work, as my X23 and T43 suspend with no problem and
it didn't occur to me that the SMP in the new machine would 
mess things up.

Thanks for any advice.

Jesse Sheidlower


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