Asus EEE -- suspend, card reader and camera

[Paul B. Mahol]

On 12/5/08, Jack Twilley <jmt at twilley.org> wrote:
> I am a mostly-happy user of an Asus EEE 701.  Recently I was pointed at
> http://wiki.freebsd.org/AsusEee which has more current information than
> the nighthack page.  I'm running RELENG_7 and I am pleased to confirm
> that the wired Ethernet works out of the box.  I'm looking forward to
> ath_hal merging from current so I can stop copying over the madwifi hal
> directory.  I have only three issues remaining, some of which are at
> least partially discussed on that page.
>
> First, I'm new to FreeBSD on laptops.  I tried to suspend with Fn-F1 and
> it seemed to do the right thing, but I don't know how to resume.  I
> tried Fn-F1 and it didn't work.  I hit the power button, and the LEDs
> changed but the screen never woke up.

loading vesa LKM fixed that issue for me, also make sure that
kern.smp.disabled=1

eg. add these lines to /boot/loader.conf

vesa_load="YES"
kern.smp.disabled="1"

-- 
Paul