In message <http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=118157353605570&w=1> I wrote # I have a problem with suspend-to-RAM on an IBM/Lenovo ThinkPad T41p # running OpenBSD 4.1-stable. Basically, suspend-to-RAM works fine if # I'm not running X, but hangs the system if I'm running X. My basic # question is, has anyone gotten suspend-to-RAM to work while X is # running on a T41p, and if so, how did you do it?
In message <http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=118158640324339&w=1>, Niall O'Higgins suggested > Try switching to console before suspend. and in message <http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=118159088829879&w=1>, Jussi Peltola offered a pointer to a program to do this automatically. That's a good idea! Alas, when I tried it, the results were the same as when I tried suspend from within X :( :( # ==> the moon-shaped status light starts blinking # and keeps on blinking, disk and fan stay running, # and the machine is hung (all keyboard input is ignored, # including 'Fn' and 'Fn-F4'; I have to power-cycle it # to regain control (which in turn requires fsck-ing all # mounted the file systems etc)) More generally, the *only* conditions under which suspend-to-RAM works is if X has *never* been run since the last reboot. Since X is so tied up in this, I should also note that I do *not* have an 'xorg.conf' -- the system is using some sort of internally-generated default X configuration, which works fine (which is why I never bothered to set up my own 'xorg.conf'. (My X resolution is 1400x1050, default depth 16 bits/pixel, other available depths 1, 4, 8, 15, 24, 32.) One of the things I haven't yet tried, but plan to try soon, is to set up an explicit 'xorg.conf' (eg there's a T41p configuration on the OpenBSD laptops page http://www.openbsd.org/i386-laptop.html which gives one), and see if this helps. ciao, -- -- "Jonathan Thornburg -- remove -animal to reply" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Max-Planck-Institut fuer Gravitationsphysik (Albert-Einstein-Institut) and School of Mathematics, U of Southampton, England "Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral." -- quote by Freire / poster by Oxfam
