Dell laptop followup (Re: ASUS S5N and the 2.6.10-1.741_FC3 kernal and s3 sleep works

[Paul Johnson]

I will try your grub options, but I'm a bit concerned that I don't 
understand what they do.

I have a Dell Inspiron 8600 and I can do suspend to memory, but when I 
wake up the system and log out of X, then the screen is black.  I can 
still type in commands, to shudown or startx, for example (but I have to 
  go on faith while typing, because I can't see!).

Also, After I wake up the computer, the touchpad tap does not work any 
more. I can move the pointer with the touchpad, but tapping won't do.

Maybe the difference is the way I'm going to sleep. I've got this in 
/etc/acpi/actions/sleep.sh

__________________________________________________
#!/bin/sh

# do not got to suspend mode if some command fails!
set -e

rmmodules () {
  mname=$1
  if grep $mname /proc/modules ; then
    /sbin/rmmod $mname
  fi
}

# if network is up, shut it down!
if [ -f /var/lock/subsys/network ] ; then
   /sbin/service network stop
fi

# remmod all problematic modules
#rmmodules tg3
rmmodules uhci_hcd
rmmodules ehci_hcd
rmmodules hci_usb
rmmodules ipw2100

echo mem > /sys/power/state

# after waking up, move to terminal 1, this give some time to graphic 
card to get into sane state
chvt 1
sleep 0.5
# change into gui terminal, graphic card is ok at this point
chvt 7

#load modules
/sbin/modprobe uhci_hcd
/sbin/modprobe ehci_hcd
/sbin/ifup eth1
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pj

Matthew Faull wrote:
>  ASUS S5N and the 2.6.10-1.741_FC3 kernel and s3 sleep seems to work
> now.
>  In all previous FC3 kernels(724,681,667), it seemed to die when you woke
>  it up again.
>  
>  Other random info about my setup:
>  - Asus S5N with the 210 bios update.
>  
>  - Here's my entry in grub.conf:
>  ***********************************************************************
>  title Fedora Core (2.6.10-1.741_FC3)
>          root (hd0,0)
>          kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.10-1.741_FC3 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet
>  acpi_sleep=s3_bios pm=off vga=0x317 video=vesa:ywrap,mtrr splash=silent
>  ***********************************************************************
>  
>  - Heres the command I run to send the notebook to sleep:
>  ***********************************************************************
>  #!/bin/bash
>  
>  # suspend-to-ram : Sends the machine to S3,
>  # performing some tasks before and after wakeup.
>  
>  PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/sbin
>  
>  /usr/bin/killall synergyc
>  
>  echo -e "3[1;31mInitiating suspend-to-ram 3[0m"
>  
>  # Empty logfile
>  echo > /tmp/suspend.log
>  
>  /etc/init.d/hotplug stop >> /tmp/suspend.log 2>&1
>  /etc/init.d/acpid stop >> /tmp/suspend.log 2>&1
>  
>  # Go, sleep!
>  echo 3 > /proc/acpi/sleep
>  
>  echo -e "3[1;32m... back 3[0m"
>  
>  # http://bugme.osdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3609
>  setpci -s 00:1f.0 f2.b=1
>  
>  /etc/init.d/acpid start >> /tmp/suspend.log 2>&1 &
>  /etc/init.d/hotplug start >> /tmp/suspend.log 2>&1 &
>  ***********************************************************************
>  Note: I don't claim to be the author of any of the code above. I just
>  dug it up from googling around the net.
>  
>  Thanks people
>  
>  Cheers 

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