Re: 2.6.21-rc1: T60 ACPI issues

From: Michael S. Tsirkin
Date: Wed Aug 01 2007 - 11:55:37 EST


> Quoting Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@xxxxxxxxxx>:
> Subject: Re: 2.6.21-rc1: T60 ACPI issues
>
> (CC changed from Borislav to ibm-acpi-devel).
>
> On Wed, 01 Aug 2007, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > > > 2. Pressing Fn/F4 does not trigger suspend to ram
> > > > This normally triigers ACPI event which triggers suspend to RAM on Ubuntu
> > > > (echo mem > /sys/power/state works)
> > >
> > > I'll bet this is your CONFIG_THINKPAD_ACPI_INPUT_ENABLED=y.
> > > I got the same, see my "THINKPAD_ACPI_INPUT_ENABLED seems regressive"
> > > mail to Henrique and lkml an hour ago.
>
> [...]
>
> > > > 3. After suspend to RAM, system wakes up but laptop's screen is blank,
> > > > switching VTs etc does not help.
> > > > External screen wakes up OK though.
> > > > dmesg output from boot attached.
> > >
> > > (I've not had that.)
> >
> > Bingo.
> > sudo rmmod thinkpad_acpi cures both 2 and 3.
> > Thanks for pointing this out.
>
> I can see how it would help with (2), as that prompty tells the firmware to
> issue its default ACPI events for Fn+F4 upon removal. But I have *NO* idea
> what thinkpad_acpi might be doing that is causing issues with the wake up
> after a resume.

My guess is that upon resume, I normally get some other acpi event
which gets blocked with CONFIG_THINKPAD_ACPI_INPUT_ENABLED.

> Please open a bug in bugzilla.kernel.org about it, and attach the full debug
> output of a suspend+resume cycle with and without thinkpad-acpi loaded.
>
> Also, please try the same with thinkpad-acpi loaded, but
> CONFIG_THINKPAD_ACPI_INPUT_ENABLED set to N. If the problem goes away,
> please retest, but set hotkey_enable to 1 and do an "cat
> /sys/bus/platform/devices/thinkpad_acpi/hotkey_recommended_mask >
> /sys/bus/platform/devices/thinkpad_acpi/hotkey_mask" before the sleep.

what's hotkey_enable?

> You will probably need to enable a bunch of debug options in ACPI and
> thinkpad-acpi to get good enough logs. It is probably worth posting the
> acpid logs too: the real difference might be there.

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