Re: acpi-tool -s (=S3) ==> sleep + hard death

From: Pierre Asselin (pa_at_see.signature.invalid)
Date: 07/21/05

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    In comp.os.linux.portable ivowel@gmail.com wrote:

    > I am using gentoo, with the latest vanilla linux kernel on a gateway
    > 3018gz notebook (current celeron m), and I am having weird acpi
    > trouble. has anyone else encountered the following?

    > acpi seems to be working while linux is awake. but after I put the
    > computer to acpi sleep (acpitool -s, i.e., S3), nothing but a hard
    > reset will restart anything. (an S4 acpi sleep gives some messages,
    > keeps the screen on, and similarly requires a hard reboot.)

    I've never gotten S3 to work, I get a reboot instead of a resume.
    S4 works in conjunction with suspend to disk (swsusp, not swsusp2
    although the latter is now available in gentoo) but I usually do
    a complete poweroff. 

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