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Date:      Sun, 04 Jun 2006 18:52:09 -0700
From:      Nate Lawson <nate@root.org>
To:        Anish Mistry <mistry.7@osu.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ASRock K7Upgrade-880 with S3
Message-ID:  <44838E49.1060507@root.org>
In-Reply-To: <200606041953.53027.mistry.7@osu.edu>
References:  <200606041953.53027.mistry.7@osu.edu>

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Anish Mistry wrote:
> I'm trying to get my desktop to STR (S3) and can't even get S3 to 
> semi-powered down state. 6.1-RELEASE-p1
> 
> I've updated the BIOS to the latest version.  When I do an acpiconf -s 
> 3 the suspend get all the way into the AcpiEnterSleepState function 
> and begins to write registers.  The last  line I see (with full ACPI 
> debugging enabled):
> heregs-0708 HwRegisterWrite : ----Entry
> 
> Then the power light on the case starts to blink seeming to indicate 
> that it is in suspend, except I can still see output on the monitor 
> and the fans and harddrives are still  running.  Then when I press 
> the power button to try to bring the system back up it then displays:
> heregs-0708 HwRegisterWrite : ----Exit
> and then continues with a few more HwRegisterWrite and then exits the 
> AcpiEnterSleepState function and then does nothing.  The system shows 
> no life of coming back.  I then need to perform a cold boot, because 
> if I just hit the reset button the system doesn't restart to the 
> point where it gets to the BIOS screen.
> 
> My acpidump output is at:
> http://am-productions.biz/docs/bigguy.asl
> I've fixed the errors in the asl and tried using that, but it showed 
> the same problem.
> http://am-productions.biz/docs/bigguy-fix.asl
> dmesg:
> http://am-productions.biz/docs/bigguy.dmesg
> 
> Windows isn't installed on this system so I can't compare it with 
> that.  I tried suspending with Knoppix (2006-06-01) and that worked a 
> bit better.  It successfully shutoff the disks on suspend, but the 
> case fans and video card/monitor were still on.  When you press the 
> power button again in knoppix it successfully brought the system back 
> to life.  Getting it to the point of Knoppix would be a good start.

Try enabling the same acpi debugging prints on Linux (since they use 
acpi-ca also) and see if there are any diffs.

Shutting disks off is the job of the ata driver, look into that.

-- 
Nate



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