Asus EEE -- suspend, card reader and camera

[Jack Twilley]

Paul B. Mahol wrote:
> On 12/6/08, Paul B. Mahol <onemda at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 12/6/08, Jack Twilley <jmt at twilley.org> wrote:
>>> Paul B. Mahol wrote:
>>>> On 12/6/08, Jack Twilley <jmt at twilley.org> wrote:
>>>>> 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?
>>>> You rebooted after that change?
>>>>
>>> Yes.
>>>
>>> Jack.
>>>
>> Well, then I dont know, maybe there is some driver attached on device
>> that is cause of resume problem?
>> You could try to disable all of them and try again.
>> What happens if you suspend with zzz inside X11?
>> I'm on i386, dunno if resume work at all on amd64.
> 
> Did you do _all_ what have been recommended on that wiki page:
> kldunloading snd_hda before suspend and other stuff....
> 
> 
> I just need to report that on nx7300 I do not need to kldunload
> snd_hda before suspend, so maybe something is different on CURRENT or
> something completly unrelated is cause of such problem ....
> 
> 

My /etc/rc.suspend contains these lines:

kldunload sound snd_hda snd_uaudio
umount -f /mnt

My /etc/rc.resume contains these lines:

kldload sound snd_hda snd_uaudio
sysctl hw.api.asus.lcd_brightness=8
mount /mnt

Both sections are after the kldunload comment.

Jack.