Breezy Suspend/Resume working finally

[Grant Edwards]

On 2005-09-17, Michael R Head <burner at suppressingfire.org> wrote:

>> I've been trying to figure out how to get suspend to work on my
>> Dell I5000 -- is there an ACPI HOWTO somewhere?
>
> You _probably_ just need to edit /etc/default/acpi-support and uncomment
> ACPI_SLEEP=3Dtrue
>
> sleep is disabled by default for some reason.

I'd like to get suspend to work first.

When I cose the cover, the acpid cpu usage jumps to 20% and it
hammers on the disk continuously until I kill acpid.  The
acpid log fills up with messages like this:

xscreensaver-command: not active: idle timer reset.

[Fri Sep 16 15:23:58 2005] END HANDLER MESSAGES
[Fri Sep 16 15:23:58 2005] action exited with status 1
[Fri Sep 16 15:23:58 2005] completed event "button/lid LID 00000080 000001aa"
[Fri Sep 16 15:23:58 2005] received event "button/lid LID 00000080 000001ab"
[Fri Sep 16 15:23:58 2005] notifying client 5228[113:113]
[Fri Sep 16 15:23:58 2005] executing action "/etc/acpi/lid.sh"
[Fri Sep 16 15:23:58 2005] BEGIN HANDLER MESSAGES
xscreensaver-command: not throttled.

xscreensaver-command: not active: idle timer reset.

[Fri Sep 16 15:23:59 2005] END HANDLER MESSAGES
[Fri Sep 16 15:23:59 2005] action exited with status 1
[Fri Sep 16 15:23:59 2005] completed event "button/lid LID 00000080 000001ab"
[Fri Sep 16 15:23:59 2005] received event "button/lid LID 00000080 000001ac"
[Fri Sep 16 15:23:59 2005] notifying client 5228[113:113]
[Fri Sep 16 15:23:59 2005] executing action "/etc/acpi/lid.sh"
[Fri Sep 16 15:23:59 2005] BEGIN HANDLER MESSAGES
xscreensaver-command: not throttled.

xscreensaver-command: not active: idle timer reset.

[Fri Sep 16 15:23:59 2005] END HANDLER MESSAGES
[Fri Sep 16 15:23:59 2005] action exited with status 1
[Fri Sep 16 15:23:59 2005] completed event "button/lid LID 00000080 000001ac"
[Fri Sep 16 15:23:59 2005] received event "button/lid LID 00000080 000001ad"
[Fri Sep 16 15:23:59 2005] notifying client 5228[113:113]
[Fri Sep 16 15:23:59 2005] executing action "/etc/acpi/lid.sh"
[Fri Sep 16 15:23:59 2005] BEGIN HANDLER MESSAGES
xscreensaver-command: not throttled.




-- 
Grant Edwards                   grante             Yow!  Finally, Zippy
                                  at               drives his 1958 RAMBLER
                               visi.com            METROPOLITAN into the
                                                   faculty dining room.