Asus EEE -- suspend, card reader and camera

[Paul B. Mahol]

On 12/7/08, Jack Twilley <jmt at twilley.org> wrote:
> Paul B. Mahol wrote:
>> On 12/6/08, Jack Twilley <jmt at twilley.org> wrote:
>>> Paul B. Mahol wrote:
>>>> On 12/6/08, Jack Twilley <jmt at twilley.org> wrote:
>>>>> Paul B. Mahol wrote:
>>>>>> 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"
>>>>>>
>>>>> I made those changes, and I see the same behavior -- it doesn't come
>>>>> back with Fn-F1 or the power button.  How do you resume?
>>>> You rebooted after that change?
>>>>
>>> Yes.
>>>
>>> Jack.
>>>
>>
>> Well, then I dont know, maybe there is some driver attached on device
>> that is cause of resume problem?
>> You could try to disable all of them and try again.
>> What happens if you suspend with zzz inside X11?
>> I'm on i386, dunno if resume work at all on amd64.
>>
>
> zzz from an xterm does what Fn-F1 does.  No change in behavior.  I did
> learn that it does "come back" when I hit the power button in the sense
> that it responds to network connections like ssh, but the screen never
> wakes up and I have to reboot it to fix it.

Did you tried switching vtys, eg, to syscons and back? After resume
keyboard is working?

>
> uname says i386 and this box has a Celeron processor if I recall correctly.
>
> Jack.
>
-- 
Paul