S3 on a Compaq Evo N610c

S3 on a Compaq Evo N610c

[Gabe Sibley]

Hi all,

I've got a scary storie to tell.  The other day I was checking out the 
acpi support on my Compaq Evo n610c.  I have the latest bios from 
compaq, and I was trying out the 2.6.1 stock kernel.  I build the acpi 
modules into the kernel.  When I pipe a "3" to /proc/acpi/sleep the 
system seems to go down just fine.  But when I try to power up, she just 
lets out a continuous beep.  I had to take the battery out to reset it. 
  Then at as I'm booting, grub freaks out.  Somehow, grub.conf was 
gone... wtf?   grub.conf lives on /hda2, which was never mounted.  I 
re-wrote grub.conf, but don't really know what happened... where did it 
go?  why?  THe next boot cycle, /hda5 (home) complains, so I fsck it, 
and find a few inode problems that I just let fsck fix.  Next boot, grub 
is completely gone from the boot sector, and the machine boots straight 
to Windows!  At this point I'm worried big time.  I have run all the 
compaq diagnostics to see if the disk is messedup - it's not.  I 
re-installed grub, and I've gone back to 2.6.0.  I have not tried echo 3 
again.  So I have no idea what happened.  Seems the laptop freaked out. 
  anyone else see anything like this before?

On another note, has anywone gotten acpi to *really* work on the n610c???

cheers, Gabe




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Re: S3 on a Compaq Evo N610c

[Thorsten Zachmann]

Hello Luming
On Tuesday 03 February 2004 08:44, Yu, Luming wrote:
> >   anyone else see anything like this before?
>
> I did remember there are several laptops unable to resume from S3.
> And have to take the battery out to reset it. Any conclusion?

I also had this on my Toshiba tecra s1 after I applied a fixed dsdt from the 
net. The problem was that the fixed dsdt was for 256MB and my pc has 512 MB 
of RAM. After I changed the RAM size according to the one found in the 
original dsdt this problem did no longer occur. 

Hope this helps. 

Thorsten



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RE: S3 on a Compaq Evo N610c

[Yu, Luming]

> I also had this on my Toshiba tecra s1 after I applied a 
> fixed dsdt from the 
> net. The problem was that the fixed dsdt was for 256MB and my 
> pc has 512 MB 
> of RAM. After I changed the RAM size according to the one 
> found in the 
> original dsdt this problem did no longer occur. 
> 
> Hope this helps. 
> 

Would you post it on list?



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Re: S3 on a Compaq Evo N610c

[Thorsten Zachmann]

Hello Luming
On Tuesday 03 February 2004 08:44, Yu, Luming wrote:
> >   anyone else see anything like this before?
>
> I did remember there are several laptops unable to resume from S3.
> And have to take the battery out to reset it. Any conclusion?

I also had this on my Toshiba tecra s1 after I applied a fixed dsdt from the 
net. The problem was that the fixed dsdt was for 256MB and my pc has 512 MB 
of RAM. After I changed the RAM size according to the one found in the 
original dsdt this problem did no longer occur. 

Hope this helps. 

Thorsten



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RE: S3 on a Compaq Evo N610c

[Yu, Luming]

>   anyone else see anything like this before?
> 

I did remember there are several laptops unable to resume from S3.
And have to take the battery out to reset it. Any conclusion?

I believe any file system issues you mentioned above is caused 
by abnormal shutdown.

> On another note, has anywone gotten acpi to *really* work on 
> the n610c???

I have the same question for ASUS M2400..


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