2001-10-10 17:36:04

by Robert Szentmihalyi

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Subject: Re: APM on a HP Omnibook XE3

Am Mittwoch, 10. Oktober 2001 16:02 schrieb Chmouel Boudjnah:
> Juan Quintela <[email protected]> writes:
> > >>>>> "robert" == Robert Szentmihalyi
> > >>>>> <[email protected]> writes:
> >
> > robert> Hi!
> > robert> Sorry if this is OT.
> > robert> I'm not sure if this is a kernel issue, but I'm running
> > out of robert> ideas on this....
> >
> > robert> I have a HP Omnibook XE3 with SuSE Linux 7.2 installed.
> > robert> Everything works fine except suspend-to-disk.
> > robert> (I have created the partition. It works under
> > Winblows...) robert> I have tried Kernels 2.4.4 and 2.4.7 (with
> > SuSE patches) as well as robert> 2.4.9 vanilla, but I keep
> > getting the same messages: robert> When I do
> > robert> apm -s
> > robert> I get
> > robert> apm: Input/output error
> > robert> and the Kernel log says:
> > robert> apm: suspend: Unable to enter requested state
> >
> >
> > robert> Any ideas what I could do?
> >
> > For me Fn+F12 works.
unfortunately not for me....
> > apm -s & apm -S fails.
>
> works only if you have a suspend-on-disk partition.
I have created one with lphdisk and it works under Win2k...

The HP support people say the new omnibook BIOS is not APM
compilant any more.
ACPI only...

Suspend-to-disk with API is not yet supported and I can't use
software suspend because of reiserfs

I guess I have to wait for proper hibernation support with ACPI....

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