From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Nov 26 5:58:35 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A5E6537B401 for ; Tue, 26 Nov 2002 05:58:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from tomts10-srv.bellnexxia.net (tomts10.bellnexxia.net [209.226.175.54]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D6FDA43E4A for ; Tue, 26 Nov 2002 05:58:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from matt@gsicomp.on.ca) Received: from xena.gsicomp.on.ca ([65.95.176.205]) by tomts10-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.04.19 201-253-122-122-119-20020516) with ESMTP id <20021126135830.HPJW12038.tomts10-srv.bellnexxia.net@xena.gsicomp.on.ca>; Tue, 26 Nov 2002 08:58:30 -0500 Received: from hermes (hermes.gsicomp.on.ca [192.168.0.18]) by xena.gsicomp.on.ca (8.11.3/8.11.3) with SMTP id gAQDwRS12156; Tue, 26 Nov 2002 08:58:28 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from matt@gsicomp.on.ca) Message-ID: <00c301c29553$e6b263b0$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> From: "Matthew Emmerton" To: "Mark Evenson" , References: Subject: Re: apm on an IBM ThinkPad A30 Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 08:58:29 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4807.1700 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4910.0300 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I would hazard a guess and say it's broken on the Txx series too -- I've got a T23 that I'm only running -CURRENT on (hence I'm using ACPI, not APM), but enabling ACPI promptly panics the machine. I imagine that if I were to downgrade this system to -STABLE, I'd see the very same things that everyone else is seeing. -- Matt Emmerton "Mark Evenson" wrote in message news:a0adjwfrkd.fsf@panix3.panix.com... > The following message is a courtesy copy of an article > that has been posted to comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc as well. > > Sebastian Benner writes: > > > Hi, > > > > I am facing problems with apm on an IBM ThinkPad A30 . Apm works as far as > > the battery status is concerned. Suspend mode lets the display switch off > > but not come back. Anyone else having this problem? > > > > My IBM Thinkpad X20 exhibits the same symptoms. There was a recent spate > of postings on freebsd-stable [[1]] regarding similar problems with an IBM > Thinkpad R32. The problem was eventually diagnosed as badly initilized > data structures and fixed to the satisfication of the reporting user with a patch to > sys/dev/ata/ata-all.c [[2]], but it does not work for me. > > Even with this patch applied, my system will always eventually hang on > resume. "Eventually" as it seems to "sometimes" work once (a > suspend/resume cycle), but never twice. This is the same behavior as when > I run unpatched STABLE. > > I am trying to get a satisfactory kernel trace to follow up with the proper > "authorities", but don't seem to produce a panic when the "options DDB" is > compiled into the kernel. With "options DDB" compiled in, the resulting > backtrace seemingly has nothing to do with APM events. I have read the > sections of the FAQ and Developer's guide but as I am rather new to kernel > deugging, I would appreciate any further source of information that the > kind public can provide. (Like why neither ALT-SHIFT-ESC nor CTRL-BREAK > drop the system into DDB?) Fsck'in my 20GB disk between crashes makes the > going rather slow--and me rather nervous--as this system is my only > computer these days. > > Some more details about my hardware/software: > > o suspend/resume has not worked since I got this Thinkpad in > mid-2001 > > o I am currently running BIOS 2.22 (IZET9AWW) and BIOS controller > version v1.36 (the latest as of October 2002). Various previous > BIOS revisions have also failed to work for me. > > o For my this round of testing, my /usr/src tree is a frozen > 20021125 STABLE > > I wonder if suspend/resume is generally broken across the post-2000 > (Xnn,Rnn,Ann) Thinkpad series on STABLE? > > > [[1]] > > [[2]] > > > -- > Mark Evenson > > "A screaming comes across the sky. It has happened before, but there is > nothing to compare to it now." > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message