Laptop power management support

[Matthew Garrett]

On Thu, 2004-11-11 at 22:34 +0100, Julien Poissonnier wrote:
> I just tried the packages and hibernate works, but suspend-to-RAM doesn't
> (which was expected, as I have never been able to get it to work) 
> Laptop is a Acer Travelmate 8003

Excellent - that's a good start.

> I tried a lot of different kernel configurations and never got
> suspend-to-RAM to work. It seems to suspend correctly (power LED turns
> orange) but doesn't come back: video doesn't start, keyboard doesn't work
> (capslock key doesn't work, can't ctrl-alt-del to restart)
> When I start the laptop after suspend-to-RAM the bluetooth LED blinks
> which usually only blinks until the kernel gets loaded by grub.

It seems that there's still a fundamental issue with some laptops and
ACPI. Once we've got a few more test results, I'll talk to the upstream
ACPI guys again.

Thanks for your time,
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Matthew Garrett | mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org