Asus EEE -- suspend, card reader and camera

Jack Twilley jmt at twilley.org
Fri Dec 5 21:36:06 PST 2008


Paul B. Mahol wrote:
> On 12/5/08, Jack Twilley <jmt at twilley.org> wrote:
>> I am a mostly-happy user of an Asus EEE 701.  Recently I was pointed at
>> http://wiki.freebsd.org/AsusEee which has more current information than
>> the nighthack page.  I'm running RELENG_7 and I am pleased to confirm
>> that the wired Ethernet works out of the box.  I'm looking forward to
>> ath_hal merging from current so I can stop copying over the madwifi hal
>> directory.  I have only three issues remaining, some of which are at
>> least partially discussed on that page.
>>
>> First, I'm new to FreeBSD on laptops.  I tried to suspend with Fn-F1 and
>> it seemed to do the right thing, but I don't know how to resume.  I
>> tried Fn-F1 and it didn't work.  I hit the power button, and the LEDs
>> changed but the screen never woke up.
> 
> loading vesa LKM fixed that issue for me, also make sure that
> kern.smp.disabled=1
> 
> eg. add these lines to /boot/loader.conf
> 
> vesa_load="YES"
> kern.smp.disabled="1"
> 

I made those changes, and I see the same behavior -- it doesn't come 
back with Fn-F1 or the power button.  How do you resume?

Jack.


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