Re: acpi resume on dell d810

[Jukka Ruohonen <jruohonen%iki.fi@localhost>]

On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 03:21:44PM +0100, fulvio ciriaco wrote:
> I own a Dell Latitude D810 with NetBSD 5.0.2 (GENERIC) installed.
> zzz sends the laptop to sleep but pressing the power button does not resume
> the computing state, it boots the laptop instead.

Generally, the apm(8) is a legacy interface and it is better to use acpi(4)
directly for anything manufactured in the 2000s. Unfortunately the
documentation is badly behind the current state of affairs.[1]

General steps to test the suspend/resume:

        1. Boot into single user mode (see boothowto(9)).

        2. Issue 'sysctl -w machdep.sleep_state=3'.

        3. Cross your fingers.

The acpi(4) manual page describes 'machdep.acpi_vbios_reset' -sysctl
variable that might have something to do with the reboot when resuming. As a
first step you could try different values for this variable.

- Jukka.

[1] Cf. the outdated http://netbsd.org/docs/power-mgmt/index.html