Re: [ACPI-sppt] lid question & wake up

Derek Broughton <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.acpi.support
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Message-ID <[email protected]>
From: "Valentine Kouznetsov" <[email protected]>

> thanks for reminder to read mans. Really.

You're welcome.  It took me long enough to realize that's what was happening...

> echo 1 > /proc/acpi/sleep
> cause my screen to be weird (like power is slowly down).
> At this step I do see flashing (slowly) my power indicator.

That makes sense.  Mine flashes on 'standby' (what Windows calls it), too

> Now about swsusp.  It's doing what it suppose to do.
> It make suspend to disk and when I open the lid it
> recover from that image completely. At least this
> solution works perfectly on my hardware and of course
> I can use it. But I still wonder about echo option.

What do you wonder about the echo option?  Calling swsusp should be absolutely
no different in terms of what actually happens than using "echo 4
>/proc/acpi/sleep"

> Regardless knowing hardware through knowledge of
> Windows, in my case I never/ever run it on any machine
> I touched so far. To answer your questions I really don't
> know how Windows will do on this laptop. I'm not going
> to install windows just to check this feature anyway :)

Well, most people already have a version of Windows installed on their laptops.
You've been lucky :-)

> What I was looking for in a list excatly what people do
> to wake up. I'll try sleep button and if you will point me
> to some other keys I'll give them a shot.

Sorry, can't help you there.  I don't think you've ever told us what sort of
machine you're using.  Tell us what you have and perhaps somebody knows.



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