Please? Anybody? Just some Google fodder or pointers on how to generate
better debugging information for the list would be greatly appreciated.
--Todd
On Thu, 2006-08-31 at 18:29 -0500, Todd Pytel wrote:
> I've got a rather old Acer TravelMate 222X for which I would *really*
> like to get proper S3 support. Right now, doing an
>
> echo -n "mem" > /sys/power/state
>
> suspends the machine to RAM OK. But when it tries to resume, it shows a
> bit of disk activity and then hard locks - nothing on the screen, no
> keyboard input is accepted, and it doesn't respond to pings. This is
> using 2.6.17, entirely from text mode with no framebuffer. I've tried
> various combinations of acpi_sleep parameters and noapic/lapic with no
> visible effect.
>
> I've been reading through many of the ACPI docs on the net, and have
> fixed my DSDT and added it to the kernel according to those
> instructions. This had no visible effect on the resume behavior. Most of
> the fixes were pretty obvious, but one I wasn't sure about - perhaps
> it's related to my problem. I received the error "Method local variable
> is not initialized (Local0)" for the statement "Store (Local0,
> \_SB.PCI0.PCI1.OBLN.PMES" in the following code block:
>
> Method (_L0B, 0, NotSerialized)
> {
> Store (0x0B, PX80)
> And (\_SB.PCI0.PCI1.OZ68.PWRS, 0xFC, \_SB.PCI0.PCI1.OZ68.PWRS)
> Or (\_SB.PCI0.PCI1.OZ68.PMES, 0x80, \_SB.PCI0.PCI1.OZ68.PMES)
> Store (Local0, \_SB.PCI0.PCI1.OBLN.PMES)
> Notify (\_SB.SLPB, 0x02)
> }
>
> Well, yeah... it's not initialized. I assumed that the second Store
> statement was just a sloppy way to zero out the variable. So I replaced
> "Local0" with "0x00". That compiles without error, but I don't know if
> it makes sense - is there a way that Local0 can be used as something
> like a global variable in this specification?
>
> Other than that, I'm not sure what information is helpful to fix this
> problem, but I'm *more* than happy to do whatever diagnostics will shed
> better light on the problem. I really want to get this working! There's
> nothing of obvious interest in my logs - the machine doesn't get far
> enough when it tries to resume to write anything to syslog, and nothing
> during bootup looks particularly suspicious. But maybe I just don't what
> I should be looking for.
>
> Thanks for any help you can provide,
> Todd
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