Peter Mutsaers wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> After Linux I gave FreeBSD a try again, when I saw some improvements
> to APM had been committed.
>
> I hoped for a real suspend mode, but alas. Now I'm wondering what
> makes the difference, and whether I could do it myself.
>
> Let me explain: I run my (desktop) computer in the living room. I
> don't want to shut it down all the time, but it must be 100% quiet
> when I'm not using it.
>
> In Linux, when suspend mode is activated (either through a short press
> on the power button or by the (BIOS) timer ), the disks also spin down
> (immediately, not waiting for their timer, which I disabled) and also
> the CPU fan and/or the FAN of the box switches off.
>
> In FreeBSD, when I activate suspend mode, I see the light on my
> computer blinking, indicating it has gone into suspend mode, but still
> there is no reduction in noise whatsoever. The disks keep spinning,
> the CPU fan (or whatever) too. I could activate the BIOS spindown
> timer on the HDD's, but I'd rather not (since then I also get
> spindowns while I'm normally working with the computer) but still the
> other fan will always continue to run.
>
> What can I do to change this behaviour? Can anyone explain what Linux
> (or Win95 for that matter) are doing to make it 100% quiet in suspend
> mode? Then I could give it a try to have FreeBSD do the
> same. Currently this prevents me from using FreeBSD alas.
Have you looked at PAO at all?
http://www.jp.freebsd.org/PAO/
I've got a -current machine (no cvsups in a few months) that wakes up
immediately after suspending. (sleeps 0 seconds)
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