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apm: busy: Unable to enter requested state

DISCUSSION Thomas Hood 2 participants 2 messages Jan 26, 2002 – Jan 27, 2002

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apm: setting state busy
apm: busy: Unable to enter requested state
apm: setting state busy
apm: busy: Unable to enter requested state

While the suspend request is being processed, the apm driver attempts to set the power state to "busy", as required by the APM spec. The attempt fails, presumably because of shortcomings in your firmware.

Is there a driver or userland process that is failing to process the suspend event quickly?

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apm: received normal resume notify

The APM firmware appears to generate this event. Perhaps it is timing out waiting for the OS to respond to the suspend event with a set-power-state operation. How long does it take for this to happen?

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and then the cpu does not cool down (I guess it is not shut down like it was before).

A suspended machine does more than cool down. It does not operate at all.

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apm: setting state busy
apm: busy: Unable to enter requested state
apm: setting state busy
apm: busy: Unable to enter requested state

While the suspend request is being processed, the apm driver attempts to set the power state to "busy", as required by the APM spec. The attempt fails, presumably because of shortcomings in your firmware.

Firmware == bios?

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Is there a driver or userland process that is failing to process the suspend event quickly?

None that I know of ... But the system does kind of suspend (hdd is spun down, monitor shuts down, ....) but when the system resumes (press key, move mouse) the temperature of the cpu is still the same it was before the suspend. Sometime ago the cpu cooled down to roomtemperature (sys temp also). But this does not happen any more :-(

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apm: received normal resume notify

The APM firmware appears to generate this event. Perhaps it is timing out waiting for the OS to respond to the suspend event with a set-power-state operation. How long does it take for this to happen?

When I press the suspend button the message appears almost instantly (message appears several times). But I checked 2.4.18-pre7 and there the message does not appear but the cpu does not cool down either. The kernel that generates this message was 2.4.17-rmap12a.

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and then the cpu does not cool down (I guess it is not shut down like it was before).

A suspended machine does more than cool down. It does not operate at all.

That is exactly what I would like it to do and which it partly does. But the cpu does not cool down (it seems as if it is not shut down - do I have to use a config option for this?).

CONFIG_PM=y
# CONFIG_ACPI is not set
CONFIG_APM=y
# CONFIG_APM_IGNORE_USER_SUSPEND is not set
CONFIG_APM_DO_ENABLE=y
CONFIG_APM_CPU_IDLE=y
# CONFIG_APM_DISPLAY_BLANK is not set
CONFIG_APM_RTC_IS_GMT=y
# CONFIG_APM_ALLOW_INTS is not set
# CONFIG_APM_REAL_MODE_POWER_OFF is not set

Do I have to enable one of these?

Regards,

Jogi

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Well, yeah ... I suppose there's no point in getting greedy, is there?

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