On 10/6/06, Hans du Plooy
Suspend to ram sort of works, and I've used it a few times but there seems to be a few more wake-up problems, with various programs not responding That's a pity. A buddy of mine this weekend showed me how well it works on his Powerbook (older G4, OSX of course). He just closes the lid, chucks it in his bag, goes home, takes it out again and type away. It comes out of sleep almost instantly.
I want that.... :-)
Now that is an example of how a system should work, but then again, the Apple hardware and software are engineered for each other. Unfortunately the HP nx6125 have been engineered for WindowsXP. I have also never been able to get the suspend to work on it. My older HP nx5xxx (cannot remember what the number is), which was the first HP that was shipped with Linux on (If you lived in USA) had suspend working fine. I understand that the issues with the nx6125 is caused by the code in the BIOS. There is a term for it, but I forgot that now and cannot find my links to it anymore. If you do a dmesg, you will find right in the beginning: --<snip>-- ACPI: RSDP (v000 HP ) @ 0x00000000000fe270 ACPI: RSDT (v001 HP 0944 0x01070520 HP 0x00000001) @ 0x0000000077fefc84 ACPI: FADT (v002 HP 0944 0x00000002 HP 0x00000001) @ 0x0000000077fefc00 ACPI: MADT (v001 HP 0944 0x00000001 HP 0x00000001) @ 0x0000000077fefcb8 ACPI: MCFG (v001 HP 0944 0x00000001 HP 0x00000001) @ 0x0000000077fefd14 ACPI: SSDT (v001 HP HPQPpc 0x00001001 MSFT 0x0100000e) @ 0x0000000077ff6dde ACPI: DSDT (v001 HP SB400 0x00010000 MSFT 0x0100000e) @ 0x0000000000000000 --<snip>-- THe last two lines includes "MSFT", and that seems to be the problem. It has been compiled with a Microsoft compiler and thus generate errors in Linux. You can fix it, by recompiling it and re-loading it under Linux and I had a few links that describe the procedure, but never got round to doing it. If I can find those links again, then I will post them here. I did, however found one report where a person got the suspend-to-ram working under Fedora, maybe that can help you? http://forwardsteptech.com/blog/?p=40 -- Andre Truter | Software Consultant | Registered Linux user #185282 Jabber: andre.truter@gmail.com | http://www.trusoft.co.za ~ A dinosaur is a salamander designed to Mil Spec ~