[Debian-eeepc-devel] Bug#603430: Bug#603430: Bug#603430: eeepc-acpi-scripts: Suspend to RAM takes several minutes since switch to acpi-support

Ben Hutchings ben at decadent.org.uk
Sun Nov 14 19:29:35 UTC 2010


On Sun, 2010-11-14 at 20:19 +0100, Axel Beckert wrote:
[...]
> Ben Armstrong wrote:
> > On 13/11/10 10:19 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > > Well, first Axel should check that the kernel itself does the right
> > > thing:
> > > 
> > >     echo mem > /sys/power/state
> 
> JFYI:
> 
> $ cat /sys/power/state
> mem disk
> 
> Will change it to mem only and check again.
[...]

You misunderstand.

When you read /sys/power/state, you get a list of supported suspend
modes (which are architecture-neutral, rather than specific to ACPI).
When you write to it, the kernel will attempt to enter the named suspend
mode.  This does not set any kind of default.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.
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