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Old 01-31-2006, 08:13 PM   #1
CodyDH
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Fedora Core 4 on Dell D800


Hello. I have recently decided to switch my Dell D800 laptop over from Windows XP Professional to Fedora Core 4. I have a pretty healthy dose of experience with Linux, mostly on desktops, and so I thought I would give it a shot. As we speak, I am posting from FC4 with mostly everything working as I need it to.

However, I am having issues getting this laptop to run for me like, well, a laptop. In Windows XP, my laptop somehow goes into a super low power mode (I believe it's Suspend, but I'm not sure) when I close the lid. This is important to me so I dont' have to shut down each and every time I want to bring my laptop with me and not use it for a while. I've tried many of the /etc/acpi/ script sets for my laptop, but none work. I know that it's possible, because Ubuntu does it just fine.

The instructions listed here:
http://www.clasohm.com/blog/one-entry?entry_id=12677
Seem well written and useable. However, upon hitting Fn + Esc (suspend), I get this error on screen, and in my /var/log/messages

Quote:
Jan 31 18:31:19 localhost kernel: Stopping tasks: ==================================================================================================== ========|
Jan 31 18:31:19 localhost kernel: ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 0000:02:01.1 disabled
Jan 31 18:31:19 localhost kernel: ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 0000:02:01.0 disabled
Jan 31 18:31:19 localhost kernel: NVRM: ACPI: unsupported event: 2
Jan 31 18:31:19 localhost kernel: Could not suspend device 0000:01:00.0: error -1
Jan 31 18:31:19 localhost kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:01.0[A] -> Link [LNKD] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
Jan 31 18:31:19 localhost kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:01.1[A] -> Link [LNKD] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
Jan 31 18:31:19 localhost kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:01.2[A] -> Link [LNKD] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
Jan 31 18:31:19 localhost kernel: Some devices failed to suspend
Jan 31 18:31:19 localhost kernel: Restarting tasks... done
Also, here is the output of lspci:
Quote:
[cdehaan@localhost ~]$ /sbin/lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82855PM Processor to I/O Controller (rev 03)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82855PM Processor to AGP Controller (rev 03)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 01)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 01)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 01)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-M) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 01)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev 81)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801DBM (ICH4-M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 01)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801DBM (ICH4-M) IDE Controller (rev 01)
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 01)
00:1f.6 Modem: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 01)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV34M [GeForce FX Go5200] (rev a1)
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5705M Gigabit Ethernet (rev 01)
02:01.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI7510 PC card Cardbus Controller (rev 01)
02:01.1 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI7510,7610 PC card Cardbus Controller (rev 01)
02:01.2 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments PCI7410,7510,7610 OHCI-Lynx Controller
02:01.3 System peripheral: Texas Instruments PCI7410,7510,7610 PCI Firmware Loading Function
02:03.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4309 802.11a/b/g (rev 03)
If anyone could offer any suggestions or help, it would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Cody
 
Old 02-01-2006, 03:10 PM   #2
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Anyone have any suggestions?
 
Old 02-02-2006, 01:06 AM   #3
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Originally Posted by CodyDH
Anyone have any suggestions?
I suppose you could try using the suspend to ram instructions from http://www.ampersand.com/nx6110/
This requires installing the hibernate rpm from the link there and the author's conf file.

This got suspend to ram working on FC4 for me on HP dv4183 - I just type hibernate in a root shell. Without that, enabling suspend to ram on the acpi interface on the kde control panel did indeed get suspend working on my laptop, but it wouldn't wake again. There might conceivably be another work around for this, such as passing an appropriate resume command to the kernel on the grub boot line - haven't tried yet because the hiberbate rpm works very well. Don't know about Dell though. Have you searched linux-on-laptops?

You would then need to get the call to hibernate made on closing the lid. He says somehting about a line in xorg.conf.

Last edited by WoofDeF; 02-02-2006 at 01:22 AM.
 
  


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