[SOLVED] APM with Xorg on 5.4-R; Compaq Armada 1500c

[Ian Smith]

Replying to the same message again, but with better news this time :)

Sufficiently desperate googling and browsing of the FLCL through various
later-model Compaq laptops led me to: 

http://gerda.univie.ac.at/freebsd-laptops/index.pl?action=show_laptop_detail&laptop=637

which states simply:

- options SC_NO_SUSPEND_VTYSWITCH is needed for suspend/resume from X.

which fixes my problem, through quite a bit of testing since building
the kernel (though I did add APM and VESA to it also, if it matters). 

Wonder if this might help your problem too?  I only found out later that
this was documented in syscons(4) in '03, and you can set it by sysctl
.. ah well, it was good to build its first 2MB-leaner kernel anyway. 

Still issues suspending / resuming with a mounted a) external USB HD
with an msdosfs, b) floppy disk (also msdosfs) and perhaps c) a CDROM,
in that mounted fs - still reported as such by mount - is not 'there',
attempts to umount it fail, and umount -f panics! but meanwhile I just
Won't Do That .. the basic system I need to use seems otherwise solid.

Thanks again for the encouragement given by your response,

cheers, Ian

On Mon, 20 Feb 2006, Norberto Meijome wrote:

 > Ian Smith wrote:
 > > Hoping someone here still runs any old but good kit ..
 > >
 > > Carefully, but too often, swapping this laptop HD between my still trusty
 > > 4.5-R on 4GB drive for real work, and a recently-installed 5.4-R on 40GB.
 > >
 > > APM has worked rock-solid here for 3+ years; living on solar power means
 > > depending on being able to hit the suspend button anytime, off or on, and
 > > having it nod off readily and safely while on battery in the field.  I
 > > usually run many-month uptimes, perhaps restarting kde on XF86 monthly,
 > > every day suspending/resuming several times, logging battery states ..
 > >
 > > But APM on 5.4-R - which after loading apm + apmd worked out of the box on
 > > vtys - while using Xorg (6.8.2) fails to suspend | resume cleanly: suspend
 > > can take half to one minute to poweroff (no disk activity), and it always
 > > locks right up on resume; X screen intact but kbd (except BIOS keys) and
 > > mouse gone, speaker stuck on a high tone even trying to blind switch to a
 > > vty to reboot cleanly; way too flakey to consider for workaday use.
 > >   
 > FWIW, i have similar problems with APM (ACPI is a dud on my laptop :( ).
 > Toshiba Tecra A2, latest Xorg, FBSD 6.1 prerel-#1
 > Works ok if suspending from syscon, but via X it just locks up and goes
 > on with a beeeeppppp (doesnt even suspend). the worst part is when I'm
 > running out of battery and working in X...it tries to go  to sleep and
 > just dies on me. not happy jen. :)
 > 
 > I sent more info on this issue on this post:
 > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=47971+52883+/usr/local/www/db/text/2006/freebsd-mobile/20060219.freebsd-mobile
 > 
 > not sure where to go from here.
 > cheers,
 > Beto
 >