[H-GEN] Laptop suspend

[Greg Black]

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On 2003-10-28, Nikolai Lusan wrote:

> The question I have is for people that may have newer toshiba laptops
> (read anything PIII or over), it has to do with apmd and suspend/hibernate.
> I have got the thing to suspend, it's just that when I resume it the
> screen remains blank. The only info I could find on google was people
> having exactly the same problems as me, and I was wondering if anyone
> here had managed to fix it.

My experience is not with a Toshiba, but it may be a data
point.  I mentioned the other night that there were various
reasons for switching back from Debian to FreeBSD on my laptop.
One of the significant ones was the unreliable behaviour of the
suspend functions.

Sometimes, it would suspend as you'd expect; sometimes it would
not.  This applied regardless of the source of the suspend
request -- lid closure, magic function keys, software request.
The result was that I frequently had to resort to a complete
shutdown.  And on rare occasions, after appearing to suspend, it
would end up in a state from which it could not be woken, which
meant using the power switch and suffering the annoyance of a
fsck (with inevitable file corruption) on reboot.

It's not the hardware, as none of these symptoms ever affects it
under FreeBSD.

Cheers, Greg

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