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schuay

Package Maintainer (PM)

From: Austria

Registered: 2008-08-19

Posts: 564

o'book 4: resume doesn't work (and more)

Hi,

I recently installed Arch (KDE 4 unstable, everything updated from testing repo) on a Belinea o'book 4 ( http://www.dooyoo.co.uk/laptops/belinea-o-book-4/ ) and I ran into a few problems:

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* strange behavior of power manager:

sometimes the battery indicator will show an empty battery in the tray. When clicking on it, it says "100 % charged". When the power cable is removed the laptop keeps running so the battery is obviously working.

the laptop will suspend by itself - i suspect this is happening because power manager thinks the battery is empty.

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* resume doesn't work:

Suspend seems to work ok - the logs only show one error in 98smart-kernel-video, something like "add_parameters - command not found".

After suspend, the power LED is blinking, so everything is as expected.

When pushing the power button, the laptop powers on and makes cdrom/harddisk noises for 2-3 seconds, then turns off again. This time, the power LED is NOT blinking, it looks like it's powered off.

After pushing the power button a second time, the laptop turns on and stays on - sometimes with hard disk activity - but always with a black screen. Keyboard LEDs like Caps Lock + Num Lock do not respond.

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I've tried uswsusp, pm-utils, echo "mem" > /sys/.... . I tried adding the resume hook to mkinitcpio.conf, then uresume (with uswsusp). No deal. Always the same behavior.

Is there a solution for this? This is my mothers laptop and I'd like to provide a good linux experience.

Many thanks,
schuay

djszapi

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From: Cambridge, United Kingdom

Registered: 2009-06-14

Posts: 1,439

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Re: o'book 4: resume doesn't work (and more)

Hello Schuay!

Maybe the best place to discuss it the Test Repo related forum:

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewforum.php?id=49

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schuay

Package Maintainer (PM)

From: Austria

Registered: 2008-08-19

Posts: 564

Re: o'book 4: resume doesn't work (and more)

Hello Schuay!

Maybe the best place to discuss it the Test Repo related forum:

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewforum.php?id=49

As far as I can tell the resume issue isn't related to any specific package from testing (I get the same behavior from uswsusp/pm-suspend/echo mem > .... ).