* Pau Amaro-Seoane  [2007-11-02 00:15:08]:
> Hi,

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>

> this is a fujitsu siemens amilo 1425M; dmesg can be read here

>

> www.aei.mpg.de/~pau/dmesg_FJS_Amilo1425.txt (OpenBSD 4.2, installed

> today from CD)

>

> ok... I changed apmd flags to apmd_flags="" because I noticed that

> when I close the lid, the "suspend" light blinks and the screen gets

> black and so remains it until I press again the power bottom. I hoped

> that, maybe, the laptop could suspend via apm.

>

> But the result is different. Closing the lid yields the same result,

> but if I type apm -S or zzz, the laptop will die in a "millifraction"

> of second. I press enter and almost immediately PUF! the whole laptop

> is powered off; I mean _everything_ Not even the light "charging"

> (plugged) is on (even if it's plugged, of course)

>

> Is there any hope that this laptop suspends? I'm just asking

> because... sigh... suspending under OpenBSD is my "dream"...

>

> cheers,

>

> Pau

> 

Suspend-to-whatever is not something you should spend too much time

worrying about.  It's likely not going to work.  Causes:

Buggy BIOS.

Poor design of APM/ACPI.

Poor implementation of the aforementioned.

Other misc reasons.
I've pretty much never seen it work on any OS, anywhere.  And IMHO,

it's hopeless, if not a pain in the ass, to get vendor specific

specs for every machine out there, test all of them, etc.
--

Travers Buda