Thinkpad resume issues in 5.4

[Lee Parsons]

Fabian
Thank you for the prompt advice.  I tried the modifications you 
suggested, and I would say that (unfortunately) at best the situation is 
now the same as before:

I made the changes, then rebooted, and before starting X, I used zzz to 
put my system to sleep.
I then woke it back up by opening the lid, and the console seemed ok. 

However, I then tried to start x, and was never successful.  I had a 
mostly black screen, with some red junk at the top (looked like the 
space invaders characters from the old Atari game), and a couple of 
partial horizontal lines that when from {red-white} repeatedly. 

I was able to get my system to then shut down nicely by pressing the 
power button.  This took a little while, but things seemed ok. 

What else should I try?

Also, I noticed one problem that I just always "put up with" in 5.3 - my 
moused seems to lose responsiveness after sleeping with zzz.  I just got 
used to finding the process number for moused before running zzz, and 
then entering

zzz ; kill -HUP {moused process number}

When I wanted to put my system to sleep.  Is there a workaround for 
this?  I am using the built-in trackpoint mouse on my thinkpad.

thanks,
Lee



Fabian Keil wrote:

>Lee Parsons <pars0080 at umn.edu> wrote:
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>>I had previously ran my Freebsd 5.3 on my thinkpad R32, where I had 
>>compiled acpi (but not apm) into my kernel.  Under that
>>configuration, I could use the 'zzz' command to sleep my system, and
>>it would wake by opening the lid.
>>Doing the same in 5.4 has not worked.  I again compiled acpi but not
>>apm into my kernel.  However, when I try to resume by opening the
>>lid, my system comes back up in a mostly non-responsive state.  By
>>that, I mean that the keyboard evokes some resonse (caps lock, for
>>example...), but I cannot actually do anything useful.  Furthermore,
>>my colors (in X) are mostly reversed.  There is no mouse response at
>>all.
>>
>>I have seen other comments on the contents of sysctl.conf.  I checked
>>my /etc/sysctl.conf and there are no uncommented lines in there. 
>>
>>I'm not sure what to do.  Otherwise, 5.4 is working well.
>>    
>>
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>To handle this problem I put
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>acpi_video_load="YES"
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>in /boot/loader.conf and
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>hw.acpi.reset_video=0
>hw.syscons.sc_no_suspend_vtswitch=1 
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>in /etc/sysctl.conf.
>
>Fabian
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