Best experience with Thinkpad suspend/resume

Alexandr Krivulya shuriku at shurik.kiev.ua
Fri Nov 28 07:12:19 UTC 2014


22.11.2014 19:46, Adrian Chadd пишет:
> On 22 November 2014 at 06:29, Alexandr Krivulya <shuriku at shurik.kiev.ua> wrote:
>> 22.11.2014 14:09, PeerCorps Trust Fund пишет:
>>> Dear mobile-users,
>>>
>>> We are considering the acquisition of about 40 Thinkpad laptops intended to be deployed in schools as teaching tools.
>>>
>>> For a significant number of reasons we have selected stock FreeBSD to run on these systems. It is not an absolute deal breaker but we are looking for the Thinkpad model providing the best suspend/resume support under FreeBSD. I've scoured the Internet and have essentially learned that the T520 and the T530 might be the best bet.
>>>
>>> Can others confirm this is still the case under FreeBSD 10.1? Any other models/suggestions would be extremely appreciated.
>>>
>>> Mike
>>>
>> Hello!
>> I have Thinkpad E530 (Ivy Bridge) and suspend/resume works very well on
>> stable and current. The only two issues are:
>>
>> 1. Before suspend I need to switch kern.eventtimer.timer from HPET to
>> LAPIC (this enabled by default). With HPET it does not resume.
> Why isn't this happening for you? It's happening for me. Would you
> mind trying -HEAD out and then file a FreeBSD bug with the details?
> This sounds easily fixable.
I can confirm - on latest CURRENT all works fine with HPET.
Thank you, Adrian
>
>> 2. With Composite enabled in X11 I need patch [1] to avoid some screen
>> garbage after resume. Without Composite all works fine.
>>
>> [1] http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-x11/2013-October/013727.html
> Gah, I'll re-poke the xorg team about this.
>
>
>
> -adrian



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