Re: ACPI S3 and VIA (C3) CPU

[Nicolas Joly <njoly%pasteur.fr@localhost>]

On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 10:44:29PM +0200, Joel CARNAT wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I tried zzz(8) on my VIA machine (VIA Nehemiah) but got the error:
> acpi0: entering state 3
> acpi0: ACPI S3 not available on this platform
> Using "sudo apm -S" just froze the machine.
> 
> It's running a GENERIC 4.99.72 kernel on top of a 4.99.63 userland.
> I'm checking if it's worth upgrading the whole system (userland + pkgsrc)
> to 4.99.72.
> 
> According to sysctl there is a suspend option:
> machdep.acpiapm.standby = 1
> machdep.acpiapm.suspend = 3

Just to be sure, check with `hw.acpi.supported_states' node :

njoly@petaure [~]> sysctl hw.acpi.supported_states
hw.acpi.supported_states = S0 S1 S3 S4 S5 

-- 
Nicolas Joly

Biological Software and Databanks.
Institut Pasteur, Paris.