Hi! s2ram works okay here -- 2.6.18-rc1-mm1, but I'm not using /sys activation. > > I just did that, but found no /sys/power/state file (or anything under > > /sys). You need to mount /sys, first...?! > > So I rebooted with "init=/sbin/init 1" and got > > > > $ echo mem > /sys/power/state > > bash: echo: write error: Operation not permitted Anything in dmesg? > > As a sanity check: > > > > $ ls -l /sys/power/state > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4096 2006-07-08 09:51 /sys/power/state > > > > So I retried both with the regular boot and got the same error. The > > state file is at least half working: > > > > $ cat /sys/power/state > > standby mem > > > > strace shows that the write(1,"mem\n",4) fails with EPERM. So I'm > > pretty sure that's what happens to the S3 suspend (with Fn-F4): it > > bounces back after failing to write to /sys/power/state > > > > The above is with the same kernel as in my original report > > (SMP+PREEMPT kernel and lock validation code). Worth retrying without > > those options, or is this error simple enough to track down with this > > kernel? Do you have config_acpi_sleep compiled in? > Hm, there seems to be something fishy in sysfs on this kernel. I'm not > sure what, though, because I've just tested suspend to disk on it and > there haven't been any problems like that. > > > By the way, I'm not sure why standby is included as a possible > > /sys/power/state, since the boot messages don't include S1: > > > > [17179570.492000] ACPI: (supports S0 S3 S4 S5) Now, that's really strange. My /sys/power/state does not include standby... Ask on acpi list... Pavel -- Thanks, Sharp! - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html