Re: APM not working in 2.1.128

Stephen.Rothwell@canb.auug.org.au
Fri, 20 Nov 1998 01:44:08 +1100


Hi,

Louis-Dominique Dubeau <ldd@step.polymtl.ca> writes:
>
> APM was working almost perfectly with 2.0.35 but since I've switched
> to 2.1.128, I'm having problems. The only problems I had with 2.0.35
> were that the pcmcia devices didn't seem to wake up after a suspend
> but I didn't investigate that problem very deeply before moving to
> 2.1.128.
>
> Now, whenever the notebook goes into suspend mode (or just stand-by),
> I'm unable to bring it back to life. I've ran the kernel with
> apm=debug and had the messages go to the console. The kernel got
> notification of the suspend (the log said so) but it never came back
> from suspend.
>
> Since it worked with 2.0.35, I assume the problem is not with the
> laptop. I'm going to look into this deeper but I any help in this
> matter would be welcome.
>
> BTW, I've used the patch for 2.1.128 at
> http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/.

Can you try booting with "apm=no-mask-interrupts", please? Or
do
echo 0 >/proc/sys/apm/mask-interrupts
and then try suspending.

Also, it would be useful if you could tell us about your laptop
as others may already have a solution ...

Stephen

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Stephen Rothwell                    Stephen.Rothwell@canb.auug.org.au
http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/

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