Dell Inspiron 510m sleep states S3/S4 not working

[Igor Partola]

Igor Partola wrote:

> I am trying to run FreeBSD on Dell Inspiron 8600 but S3 does not work 
> here. I'm not sure if this machine has the same configuration as 
> Latitude but the problem is exactly the same. Earlier today I 
> downloaded 5.2.1 iso from one of the mirrors and installed it. 
> Unfortunately S3 did not work, but simply rebooted the system just 
> like before.
>
> Next I tried to recompile the kernel without anything but the 
> essentials, but that did not work either. sysctl says that 
> debug.acpi.disabled does not exist. Does anyone know if it was added 
> later or do I have to write it out in loader.conf?
>
> A while ago I tried to dig through Linux sources but Nate said before 
> that FreeBSD and Linux have the same implementation of ACPI so I did 
> not get too far. (As I mentioned some time ago 2.6.10 suspends the 
> machine properly, except for the lcd which does not come back on resume).
>
> If this problem is in the drivers it must be in pci, isa, ata, 
> atadisk, keyboard, mouse, or vga drivers. I removed everything else 
> from my config (I'll post it on request).
>
> I really hope somebody will find a solution to this problem because 
> FreeBSD on this machine would be really nice.
>
> Igor
>
> Daniel Graupner wrote:
>
>> Arjan de Vet schrieb:
>>
>>> In article <422448BC.4000607 at danielgraupner.de> you write:
>>>  
>>>
>>> I first want to install 5.2.1 and get S3 working there (trying to see
>>> whether if I can reproduce your S3 success), and then find out what
>>> changed beteen 5.2.1 and 5.3/5.4...
>>>
>>>  
>>>
>> Thats a good idea, but unfortunately I do not have 5.2.1 installed 
>> anymore. I also have no free space on my hd to test it again.
>> I installed 5.2.1 from the isos (don't know when it was). Everytime I 
>> closed the lid the laptop properly went to S3, same with acpiconf -s3.
>>
>> I am not shure if I can make a buildworld to go back to 5.2.1, I do 
>> not want to kill my system. On the other hand side i am very 
>> interested in investigating....maybe I will try.
>>
>> Regards, Daniel.
>>
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