I believe that the Solo 9150 is the same model (hardware wise) as the
Quantex I-series and the Dell Inspirion 7000 series, as well as a few others.
It is actually a Compal (Taiwaniese manufacture) notebook with a model number of
TS30I[23]. I may be totally wrong, but if I'm close this might help. My best
guess is that you (1) don't have a suspend partition set up, (2) have suspend
location set to file, or (3) you have a linux/swap/fat/etc. as partition number
4. On mine, a Quantex, I basically used the default configuration with a few
minor changes:
Ignore user suspend - N
Enable pm at boot time - N
Make cpu idle calls - N (I haven't tried enabling this yet, anyone have it
working?)
Enable console blanking - N (doesn't seem to work, but I haven't really
fooled with it)
Power off at shutdown - Y
Store time in GMT - N
Ignore multiply suspend - Y
(I think that's all the options)
Next setup the BIOS. It probably gives you an error message when you
currently boot that "the save-to-disk partition was not found or is corrupted."
Note: Looking at several incarnations of this with fdisk shows the save-to-disk
partition as a "IBM HIBERNATION PARTION", id type 2a I think, that is always
partition number 4 and butted up to the end of the disk. Someone had their
thinking cap on. The power managment menu of the BIOS configuration gives you
options to enable/disable, set timeouts to standby/suspend, and set the suspend
location ram/file/disk, as well as a couple of predefined cases. Set the power
managment to disabled, this doesn't actually disable power managment, it just
keeps the BIOS from causing the suspends. Set the suspend location to disk.
Finally set up the suspend partition. On Dell and Quantex machines this is
done with a dos utility called "phdisk.exe" usually located in a directory
"s2d." It's probably on your CD-rom driver disk. Dell apparently installs it
by default and has great support but Quantex doesn't and their manual is sketchy
on the subject but it is on the CD-rom. I think (maybe) this is availible via
the web from Dell at ftp://ftp1.dell.com/utility/S2D-UTIL.EXE. From a dos
prompt, type "phdisk /create /partition". You will need space at the end of
your harddrive of about SYSTEM MEMORY + VIDEO MEMORY + 2MB.
I have been able to sucessfully compile kernel with this setup, suspend for
12 hours, and resume compiling from restored buffer space without any apparent
problems under 2.2.5, 2.2.10, and 2.2.12. You might also try the linux on
laptops' pages at http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/linux-laptop/,
particularly Steve's Inspiron 7000 page.
Adrian
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Subject: APM "Standby" on Gateway Solo 9150 T1.0
Hi,
Does anybody have knowledge or URL for _right_ disk/kernel 2.2 configuration of
Gateway Solo 9150 T1.0 ?
I used 2.2.6 and compiled 2.2.12 kernels with APM enabled.
But then I press "stanby" a kernel write suspend messages for
PCMCIA cards and notebook goes to endless disk access (non interruptable).
Moreover, it looks like BIOS try to save memory to disk
(there is no special partition on disk because Gateway docs and tech-support do
not recognize or understand "suspend-to-disk" possibility).
Please reply me also - I am not subscribed to linux-laptop.
Thank you.
- Leonid Yegoshin.
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