Sony suspend/resume? [Re: Sony VGN-A 197XP?]

[Søren Schmidt]

Josef Karthauser wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 01, 2004 at 01:05:20PM +0200, Franz Klammer wrote:
> 
>>did you mean something like this?
>>
>>http://gerda.univie.ac.at/freebsd-laptops/
>>
> Looking at these pages it seems that loads of people have problems with
> ACPI support on Sonys.  In particular it seems that where it works the
> machine comes back with a blank screen.  Is this an issue that anyone is
> working on, or are we hoping that a future ACPI snapshot will
> automatically fix it?

It not just Sonys, ACPI suspend/resume is broken on Acer and ASUS also.

As to anyone working on it, I've sent AML dumps, backtraces etc etc to 
the current maintainer, even binary hunted through dates where ACPI 
worked to find hints on what got borked. All to no avail so far...

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-Søren