Theo,

Thanks for the info, very much appreciated!

Theo de Raadt <[email protected]> wrote:

>> How does one begin diagnosing sleep/suspend for a particular machine? In 
>> this case, a Lenovo Yoga 13. The ACPI states are frozen (frozen battery 
>> meter and lying reports about my AC adapter being plugged  in when it's 
>> not). If someone could help me add signals for my machine, it'd be 
>> easier to work on other problems without restarting all the time and/or 
>> shutting down for overheating purposes.
>
>I thikn your laptop is one of those relying on something we still
>don't do, which is the processing of acpipwrres _ON and _OFF events.
>There is some effort to get that supported.
>
>> Installed FreeBSD to see if suspend/resume worked; telling sysctl that 
>> the lid switch state is S3 worked, and successfully suspended. Resuming 
>> was an entirely different issue. Adding the reset video parameter, 
>> however, booted me into my first operating system on resume. Weird.
>> 
>> hw.acpi.lid_switch_state=s3
>> hw.acpi.reset_video=1
>> 
>> (http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=6942)
>
>Discussing freebsd to us doesn't make you any real friends.  Anyways,
>their suspend/resume isn't even something they try hard at.  They have
>simply failed to put as much effort into suspend/resume.
>
>We've put thousands of manhours in, and it's pretty good, except for
>corner case laptops which require some rarely used part of the
>specification..
>
>Look for commits in the next few months that talk about power management
>resources.

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