Hi!

Yes, I tried with vga=0 and a minimal boot (linux init=/bin/bash), and I 
mounted /proc and /sys as per the instructions on the site.
I am currently giving a try with suspend2; I let you know how it works.

Thanks!

patrick

Stefan Seyfried wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am taking the suspend-devel mailinglist into cc: to get the attention
> of the experts :-)
>
> On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 06:22:17PM +0200, Patrick Pfundstein wrote:
>   
>> hi there!
>>
>> I just got a brand new Dell Precision m90 and i was trying to make it 
>> hibernate, here are the results I got:
>> bash-3.1# s2ram -i
>> This machine can be identified by:
>>     sys_vendor   = "Dell Inc."
>>     sys_product  = "Precision M90                   "
>>     sys_version  = ""
>>     bios_version = "A01"
>>
>> Using a minimal slackware system, I got the following:
>>
>> s2ram -f -a 1                FAILED
>> s2ram -f -a 2                FAILED
>> s2ram -f -a 3                FAILED
>> s2ram -f -p -s               FAILED
>> s2ram -f -s          FAILED
>> s2ram -f -p          FAILED
>> s2ram -f -a 1 -s             FAILED
>>
>> FAILED means that it does seem to hibernate well (LED slowly glowing), but 
>> when hitting the power button, the disk led flashes 1/2s and the screen does 
>> not come back. The machine seems to be hanged up: network card is down 
>> (cannot ping it), trying to type 'find /' on the keyboard does not get any 
>> results. The only device that comes back to life is a USB mouse.
>>
>> This PC has a SATA driven (I noticed in the 'ACPI Suspend debugging' that 
>> this 
>> is a known issue?), and an NVDIA FX2500M.
>>     
>
> With a minimal boot, the graphics card should not really matter.
> SATA issues depend on the kernel version, it is definitely worth trying the
> very latest 2.6.18rc snapshots.
>
>   
>> Should you not have access to a m90, I am willing to help you making this 
>> work. Tell me what I can do to help.
>>     
>
> I assume you have already tried with "vga=0" (i believe, slackware uses a
> vga console anyway, but i am not sure)?
>
> Also, booting in a plain shell (init=/bin/sh) and not loading anything
> non-essential before trying (no USB, NIC, ... drivers) will rule out lots
> of driver issues. Note that you probably need to mount /proc and /sys
> manually before you can suspend in this case
>  
>   
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Patrick
>>     
>
>   


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