ThinkPad T420 (Intel graphics) will not work 14.2 sleep mode
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Date: Sat, 02 Aug 2025 13:10:00 UTC
Any assistance with this would be greatly appreciated! I recently decided to give FreeBSD 14.2 a try on an old ThinkPad, figuring that, given its age and its popularity, it would be well supported. I was able to install FreeBSD 14.2 with a ZFS mirror and KDE; however, I'm experiencing issues with sleep mode and I'm not sure where to go from here. When I close the lid, the laptop does not enter sleep mode (the sleep indicator light on the lid does not turn on). Strangely, when I open the lid, the system then enters sleep mode with the lid open. If I press the power button, it resumes from sleep and SDDM briefly displays the login screen, but then the system immediately goes to sleep again. Pressing the power button a second time brings it out of sleep, and the SDDM login screen appears as expected. I’ve uploaded a very short video to file.io (expires after a week) which shows what is going on: https://limewire.com/d/sw71h#MsOONDYUUA Is this the right mailing list? Or should I post over in ACPI? Here is my `/etc/rc.conf`: ``` hostname="Think-BSD" ifconfig_em0="DHCP" ifconfig_em0_ipv6="inet6 accept_rtadv" sshd_enable="YES" ntpd_enable="YES" powerd_enable="YES" moused_nondefault_enable="NO" # Set dumpdev to "AUTO" to enable crash dumps, "NO" to disable dumpdev="AUTO" zfs_enable="YES" dbus_enable="YES" sddm_enable="YES" consolekit_enable="YES" kld_list="i915kms" wlans_iwn0="wlan0" ifconfig_wlan0="WPA DHCP" ``` And my `/etc/sysctl.conf`: ``` vfs.zfs.min_auto_ashift=12 hw.acpi.lid_switch_state=S3 hw.usb.no_suspend_wait=1 hw.pci.do_power_suspend=0 hw.pci.do_power_nodriver=3 # hw.acpi.reset_video=1 ``` I had to disable the hardware video reset option, as enabling it completely broke the system. Thanks!