I have a HP/Compaq 6715S laptop
Product Specs
on 2.6.38.4 which is behaving weirdly. Particularly, hibernate and suspend may or may not work.There's 4 idiot lights on this: Reading from left, they are
Wifi, Power, Charge, and disk. Charge is usually off.
Correct hibernate behaviour is: screen blanks, keyboard goes dead, hd light comes on for several seconds, then everything goes off.
What's happening in response to direct
Code:
'echo -n disk > /sys/power/state'
command on root terminal is: Screen blanks, keyboard goes dead, hd light does not come on for a long time or at all, and it just site there until a long press on the power button. Sometimes it hibernates after 10, 20, 45 seconds, and often after a change in fan speed. Killing acpid doesn't help.
Suspend does something similar, except much less playing with the hd is involved. It also kills access, blanks screen, but stays on. No load on system to speak of.
I believe 2.6.38x had issues - Power consumption? What's a good number(safely off the bleeding edge please)?
