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

[Andrew]

Anyone...?


On Mon, 26 Mar 2007 23:08:25 +0000 (UTC), Andrew <aremo at ngi.it> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I'm having trouble waking my AMD64 based laptop after an 'acpiconf -s
> 3'. This computer runs FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE for i386 and the very
> latest BIOS from Acer.
>
> The laptop goes to sleep correctly (apparently only when X11 is not
> running, though) but it will not wake up fully. That is, the HD and
> fan spin up, LEDs light up, but the screen's backlight stays off and
> the computer does not react to the commands I type blindly.
>
> I've tried setting "debug.acpi.resume_beep" to 1, but it doesn't beep
> when I try to wake it. I've also tried setting "hw.acpi.reset_video"
> both to 0 and 1, but no luck both ways.
>
> Trying to recompile the output of 'acpidump -t -d' shows no errors,
> only 7 warnings. Shutdown and reboot work correctly since when I've
> compiled a stripped-down kernel (no EHCI, no hardware that isn't
> actually there, nothing but the bare minimum).
>
> I don't know what else to try, so any help or advice is welcome!
>
> Thanks for your time,
> Andrew
>