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FromDmitry Torokhov <>
SubjectRe: keyboard dies during failed suspend attempt
DateFri, 4 Nov 2005 00:11:17 -0500
On Thursday 03 November 2005 03:54, Pierre Ossman wrote:
> I discovered a problem with my laptop keyboard when the machine failed 
> to suspend. Pavel Machek pointed me in your direction for guidance. :)
> 
> The original issue (swsusp failing) is in this thread:
> 
> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=113093802700002&r=1&w=2
> 
> The side issue is that the keyboard goes completely dead when the 
> suspend fails like this. Not even hardware buttons that control the 
> intensity of the TFT backlight work.
> 

Are these controlled by ACPI?

> The problem doesn't happen every time, but it seems to be often enough 
> to do some decent testing.
> 
> The problem seems to have appeared after 2.6.14 was released. Since the 
>   problem is intermittent I can't be 100% sure of this, but it's fairly 
> likely since none of the tests before 2.6.14 failed.
>

It feels like device_resume is not called somewhere when swsusp fails.

Could you try activating debug mode for i8042:

	echo 1 > /sys/modules/i8042/parameters/debug
...and then making it fail. Then we'll see if i8042 resume methods are
called and whether they succeed.

-- 
Dmitry
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