Life After "suspend"

[glmason]

I have OZ 3.5.3 installed with opie on a SL5000D, I've moved the package list, time zones, and installed Opera and Sharp-compat-libs all on the SD card. If I should put my little Z to bed for the night (in suspend mode I guess by using the cancel button) and leave it for a significant time, more than a few hour, when I get up in the morning the Zaurus won't come back to life. Suspend seems to work short time, but not for a significant time.

When it dies in suspend, I need to flip the battery cover switch to turn it on... then the SD card is not mounted, and nothing is linked...

I go through the steps of
mount /dev/mmcda1 /mnt/card
ipkg-link mount /media/card/packages
then I have to add opera to the sharp-compat-libs

I guess this works... but it is like every morning taking the air filter off the engine of your car to hold the butterfly value in the carburetor open while staring the car and then putting the air filter back and going to work...

It works but it is a pain.

Is this one of those things you have to live with if you own a Zaurus SL-5000D?

Larry

[lardman]

Is the battery flat in the morning? (just wondering why it would suspend for short periods, but not for long ones - I'm wondering if it's switched back on and then the battert has run flat).


Si

[Greg2]

If I should put my little Z to bed for the night (in suspend mode I guess by using the cancel button) and leave it for a significant time, more than a few hour, when I get up in the morning the Zaurus won't come back to life. Suspend seems to work short time, but not for a significant time.

A search finds this fix that I use.

Remove (comment out) the line containing /dev/apm_bios from /etc/device_table
and reboot

A thread with this and other fixes for that problem:
https://www.oesf.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=11948

It frustrates myself and others who try to help out when users will not use the search feature... at least give it a try.  

Greg

[glmason]

Thank you...

A search finds this fix that I use.

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It frustrates myself and others who try to help out when users will not use the search feature... at least give it a try.

A search of "suspend problem" did not even come close to finding this post thread... Maybe if there were not a mirad of ways to ask a single question and vocabularies were limited to 1000 words we could all find our answers quickly.

But thank you for the suggestion.

Question say this fixes the suspend problem...

Is is normal for the SD disk to umount itself on a hard re-boot (which is what flipping the battery cover switch does correct)? I can reboot from the system - shutdown and the SD does not become umount'ed.

And to answer lardman's question, the Zaurus is in the craddle so it has power all night. And yes suspend revive almost always works for periods of time up to a couple of hours I guess, I've not timed it precisily.

Thank you I'll I try to do better on my searchs.

Larry

[lardman]

Is is normal for the SD disk to umount itself on a hard re-boot (which is what flipping the battery cover switch does correct)? I can reboot from the system - shutdown and the SD does not become umount'ed.

Because it has not been umounted cleanly it may be refusing to mount again automatically. That would be my guess of why it will remount in some cases and not in others.


Si

[glmason]

Ahh.. yes that makes sense. Thanks.
a/glm