* Pau Amaro-Seoane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-11-02 00:15:08]: > Hi, > > this is a fujitsu siemens amilo 1425M; dmesg can be read here > > www.aei.mpg.de/~pau/dmesg_FJS_Amilo1425.txt (OpenBSD 4.2, installed > today from CD) > > ok... I changed apmd flags to apmd_flags="" because I noticed that > when I close the lid, the "suspend" light blinks and the screen gets > black and so remains it until I press again the power bottom. I hoped > that, maybe, the laptop could suspend via apm. > > But the result is different. Closing the lid yields the same result, > but if I type apm -S or zzz, the laptop will die in a "millifraction" > of second. I press enter and almost immediately PUF! the whole laptop > is powered off; I mean _everything_ Not even the light "charging" > (plugged) is on (even if it's plugged, of course) > > Is there any hope that this laptop suspends? I'm just asking > because... sigh... suspending under OpenBSD is my "dream"... > > cheers, > > Pau >
Suspend-to-whatever is not something you should spend too much time worrying about. It's likely not going to work. Causes: Buggy BIOS. Poor design of APM/ACPI. Poor implementation of the aforementioned. Other misc reasons. I've pretty much never seen it work on any OS, anywhere. And IMHO, it's hopeless, if not a pain in the ass, to get vendor specific specs for every machine out there, test all of them, etc. -- Travers Buda
