Again about Dell Inspiron 8x00

[Nate Lawson]

Igor Partola wrote:
> Hi everyone.
> 
> The last time I've tried FreeBSD on my Inspiron 8600 going into S3 
> rebooted the machine. Two days ago I installed Gentoo Linux to test the 
> waters there and S3 worked!!
> LCD display did not come back on and closing the lid did not turn off 
> the display (with no ACPI in kernel it works perfectly along with Fn+F3 
> which brings me to BIOS) but on resume from S3 the system sounded as 
> though everything was back to normal.
> 
> Alt+Ctrl+Del rebooted the system smoothly.
> 
> Just a thought: is it possible to take a look at the way Linux does the 
> suspend and make it work under FreeBSD. Not copy it but use it as a 
> reference as to what functions need to be called.

Every bit of information helps, even that Linux works.  We use the same 
ACPI-CA implementation so there's a lot in common.

The problem for FreeBSD is likely in device drivers.  You can try 
stripping out as much as possible from them to see if it helps. 
Unfortunately, without more debugging info, it's impossible to know what 
exactly needs fixing.

-- 
Nate