(sorry for answered with more questions, I really wish to understand how
all that stuff operates together)

> Please install cpufreqd to control the speed of the CPU. You'll need to
> enable some underlying kernel support, something along the lines of:
> CONFIG_CPU_FREQ and friends.

I use powernowd: would it make a difference?

> Additionally, you probably want to consider the suspend2 kernel patch
> series from http://www.suspend2.net/ to allow for reliably shutting the
> system off without losing state and storing memory into your swap
> partition or a file.

Does suspend2 change the behavior of the system for suspend to mem, or
is it only for suspend to disk? I hesitated to use these patches, as the
debian kernel is far from a vanilla kernel, and I don't think they
packaged a version of it.

> You'll probably want to poke around /proc/acpi and such to find out if
> C1, C2, and C3 are getting entered a reasonable amount of time by the
> processor. This might lead to the possibility that one or multiple of
> these states are underused, which could be caused by anything from a
> kernel bug to some kind of problem with your DSDT that prevents one or
> more of these states from being marked as available.

The system actually goes in sleep mode, I don't know which part of the
hardware does not. By comparing the list of PCI devices being disabled
(in the log I sent in the previous message) with the output of lspci, it
seems that the graphical card is not disabled. But I don't know if some
other part of the code does the job, neither do I know what this
'disabled' state actually means (maybe only regarding interrupts?)

> Last thing I can think of, try building a kernel that uses APM (it's
> still available under Power Management as far as I recall) instead of
> ACPI and see how it works for comparison purposes.

I was hoping I could start using debian's packaged kernels again :-) In
fact, APM worked well in 2.6.8, but from that version upward, it really
was a source of random crashes when the system was going up again. I was
not using then hibernate script at that time. Do you think it would have
improved the experience?

Frédéric

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Frédéric Gobry    Infoscience
                  SISB / EPFL
                  Tel: +41216932288
http://people.epfl.ch/frederic.gobry

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