>> > I just did that, but found no /sys/power/state file (or anything under >> > /sys). > You need to mount /sys, first...?! Right. But /proc was also not there, so I just rebooted to runlevel 1 to get both. > > > $ echo mem > /sys/power/state > > > bash: echo: write error: Operation not permitted > Anything in dmesg? This one was solved in my later email to linux-acpi: I hadn't enabled hotpluggable CPUs, which is needed for SMP to suspend. So I did that, which helped but it failed with a locking problem and a failure to stop tasks. See this linux-acpi msg: Date: Sat, 08 Jul 2006 12:22:45 EDT Subject: Re: S3 suspend fails with lockdep BUG warning (TP T60, 2.6.18-rc1) > > > 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... I did, in the email that you're responding to (which went to linux-acpi), but this reply can be taken as my asking again :-) -Sanjoy `Never underestimate the evil of which men of power are capable.' --Bertrand Russell, _War Crimes in Vietnam_, chapter 1. - 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