On Mon, 22 Apr 2002, Jim Gettys wrote:
> There are bugs in suspend in general with Linux (having nothing to do with
> X per' se'). Keith Packard has sent Linus a patch; not a great one,
> (loop after a pause for a long time), but one that works.
Actually, in the case of GeForce2 Go there is more to it than this.
The video bios does not have APM support. It's ACPI only and this
is not something well supported in Linux kernel.
Mark.
>
> Basically, if the system is busy at the instant that the
> suspend request is made, it fails. This can happen if the disk or
> other device is busy at that instant, which can happen as the X server
> writes its log that it is suspending (or other logging activity).
>
> This will depend on exactly the hardware/software combination, and may
> or may not be repeatable (until you change something!).
>
> Keith, any news on that patch from Linus?
> - Jim
>
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