Re: can't get linux to perform a bios suspend (was: Re: [FIX, please test] Re: 2.5.70-bk16 - nfs interferes with s4bios suspend)

[CaT <cat@zip.com.au>]

On Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 05:15:49PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > To me this appears to indicate that it's treating a request for a
> > sleep state of 4 (s/w suspend) and 4b (bios suspend) as the same thing
> > as simple_strtoul will stop at the b and return 4 and there are no
> > further checks being done. In a small experiment I added a test of
> > state_string[1] == 'b', recompiled and tried it again. It did not go
> > into s/w suspend as expected but it failed to do a suspend alltogether.
> 
> If you have 2.4.X, get 2.5.72. That should have
> do_suspend_lowlevel_s4bios in wakeup.S. Look around and fix it so that
> it is called when user does echo 4b. It may well be broken.

Been using 2.5.x all this time. Just did the following mod on 2.5.72-bk3:

#ifdef CONFIG_SOFTWARE_SUSPEND
        if (state == 4) {
                if (state_string[1] == 'b') {
                        do_suspend_lowlevel_s4bios(0);
                } else {
                        software_suspend();
                }
                goto Done;
        }
#endif  

And it activated bios suspend just fine. It didn't resume properly though.
The bios resume screen was left behind and the whole setup hung. I've
been using the suspend2disk functionality of this laptop under apm and 2.4.x
just fine (for months really - I rarely 'rebooted' my laptop) so I don't
think it's the bios that's b0rked.

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