APM with Xorg on 5.4-R; Compaq Armada 1500c

[Norberto Meijome]

Ian Smith wrote:
> Hoping someone here still runs any old but good kit ..
>
> Carefully, but too often, swapping this laptop HD between my still trusty
> 4.5-R on 4GB drive for real work, and a recently-installed 5.4-R on 40GB.
>
> APM has worked rock-solid here for 3+ years; living on solar power means
> depending on being able to hit the suspend button anytime, off or on, and
> having it nod off readily and safely while on battery in the field.  I
> usually run many-month uptimes, perhaps restarting kde on XF86 monthly,
> every day suspending/resuming several times, logging battery states ..
>
> But APM on 5.4-R - which after loading apm + apmd worked out of the box on
> vtys - while using Xorg (6.8.2) fails to suspend | resume cleanly: suspend
> can take half to one minute to poweroff (no disk activity), and it always
> locks right up on resume; X screen intact but kbd (except BIOS keys) and
> mouse gone, speaker stuck on a high tone even trying to blind switch to a
> vty to reboot cleanly; way too flakey to consider for workaday use.
>   
FWIW, i have similar problems with APM (ACPI is a dud on my laptop :( ).
Toshiba Tecra A2, latest Xorg, FBSD 6.1 prerel-#1
Works ok if suspending from syscon, but via X it just locks up and goes
on with a beeeeppppp (doesnt even suspend). the worst part is when I'm
running out of battery and working in X...it tries to go  to sleep and
just dies on me. not happy jen. :)

I sent more info on this issue on this post:
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=47971+52883+/usr/local/www/db/text/2006/freebsd-mobile/20060219.freebsd-mobile

not sure where to go from here.
cheers,
Beto