Hi! > I'm using the stock suspend with SLED 10 (which seems to be almost the > same RPM as in Suse 10.1 - suspend-20060406-9.8). > S2RAM reports the following on my machine: > This machine can be identified by: > sys_vendor = "Sony Corporation" > sys_product = "VGN-A190(UC)" > sys_version = "C0003EL3" > bios_version = "R0030F1" > I would like to report a limited amount of success using s2ram and > standard suspend-to-disk on this machine. Limited because, perhaps > one time out of five, the machine just hard locks when it wakes up > from a suspend to disk or ram. I am using the proprietary ATI drivers > ( 8.27.18) and suspend is still relatively stable.
Eh, just don't use proprietary drivers. > I have noticed a few other problems with suspending: > 1. Suspend to ram still uses battery at about 50% the normal rate, > even when suspended! The laptop also stays very warm when > suspended. Find out which parts produce the heat... then fix those drivers. > 2. Both suspends take a long time to wake up from (and aren't very > fast at suspending). It take perhaps 30 seconds to resume from ram > and more from disk. Try with 2.6.18-rc4-vanilla. > 3. Even after resuming from RAM the disk sometimes doesn't come online > immediately. I can run some commands but commands that access the > disk like 'ls' stall the machine for 10-20 more seconds until I hear > the disk spin up and everything goes back to normal. > I have some questions that I hope someone can help me with: Vanilla. > 1. Is it normal for s2ram to use so much battery when suspended or is > this specific to my machine? Specific to your machine -- but we are eating too much power on many machines. See radeon problems on thinkpads. > 2. Might the battery usage during s2ram have to do with my display > driver? Maybe its not powering down properly? That's probable cause. > 3. Is it possible that upgrading to the new version, as explained by > Pavel below, could fix these issues? > 4. Would it be useful to just upgrade the suspend user tools or do I > have to also update the kernel? You need new kernel, not new s2disk. Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Suspend-devel mailing list Suspend-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/suspend-devel