more ACPI woes
I spent the better part of the last two days mucking with ACPI on my laptop. I’ve pretty much resigned myself to the fact that it’s simply not possible to suspend/resume on my Dell Latitude C840. Everything else with ACPI seems to work fine; I can access CPU and battery information real-time and can throttle the CPU to save power. In fact, even the suspend (S3) seems to work as expected.
But no matter what I’ve tried, I can’t seem to resume my suspended laptop. The power light comes on and the hard drive light flickers, but that’s it. The screen remains blank and from that point on the laptop is “hung”. It’s funny though how you adapt if you really want something. I really want this laptop to remain a Linux laptop, so I deal with it’s lack of suspend/resume. Really, though, it’s not that bad. I have a laptop for portability sake; so I can take my data from the office, to home, to a remote location and then back again. If I can’t simply close the lid and re-open it and pick up where I left off, that’s no big deal. At least that what I keep telling myself… until I get frustrated and waste another day trying to get my laptop to wake up.
Sat, 26 Feb 2005 01:28 Posted in Linux
