[kumazemi]

When I close my Mac laptop and it goes to "sleep" the machine more or less shuts down, with minimal drain on battery life, but will come back to life instantly when I open it. It's a great feature. Aside from software updates and the rare crash, I have barely ever turned off my iBook since I bought it.

On my new Vostro A90, I have Snow Leopard up and running. I ran NetbookInstaller 0.8.2 to get the dsdt.aml file installed, and then ran NetbookInstaller 0.8.3 RC4. To my knowledge everything is set correctly in the BIOS.

An approximation of "sleep" works now. I can close the lid and the screen turns off. Then later I can open it and aside from a weird quirk where the screen will instantly come back on, then turn black, then come back on again, it works fine.

However, the machine remains warm while it's asleep and I assume it's running or operating on a higher level than what my Mac is when it's asleep. I really haven't tested it yet, but I can only assume the battery is being drained at a much higher rate than my Mac when it's asleep.

I'm not really complaining, I still think it's amazing that I can get OS X running on this little device to begin with. Also, shutdown/startup times are not long at all, so it wouldn't be much of an issue to just shut it down and restart it...but I'm still curious if this is the best I'm going to get out of the "sleep" function on my Vostro A90. It's very close to what my Mac does, but not exactly the same behavior.

So to get to my point, do I have the sleep function set correctly on my Vostro? Or is this the best I'm going to get? What are your observations?

[mannikin]

I haven't noticed a battery drain on my Vostro when its in sleep. I'm assuming your settings are right, or else you would have been having issues coming back from sleep. At this point, I'm never going to have the exact same behavior as having a "real" mac, and I'm totally ok with that. This machine is simply a casual internet/play machine, so I'm personally not expecting it to do wondrous thing, aside from the fact that I'm able to run OS X on it and be the envy of all of my friends.

Originally Posted by kumazemi

When I close my Mac laptop and it goes to "sleep" the machine more or less shuts down, with minimal drain on battery life, but will come back to life instantly when I open it. It's a great feature. Aside from software updates and the rare crash, I have barely ever turned off my iBook since I bought it.

On my new Vostro A90, I have Snow Leopard up and running. I ran NetbookInstaller 0.8.2 to get the dsdt.aml file installed, and then ran NetbookInstaller 0.8.3 RC4. To my knowledge everything is set correctly in the BIOS.

An approximation of "sleep" works now. I can close the lid and the screen turns off. Then later I can open it and aside from a weird quirk where the screen will instantly come back on, then turn black, then come back on again, it works fine.

However, the machine remains warm while it's asleep and I assume it's running or operating on a higher level than what my Mac is when it's asleep. I really haven't tested it yet, but I can only assume the battery is being drained at a much higher rate than my Mac when it's asleep.

I'm not really complaining, I still think it's amazing that I can get OS X running on this little device to begin with. Also, shutdown/startup times are not long at all, so it wouldn't be much of an issue to just shut it down and restart it...but I'm still curious if this is the best I'm going to get out of the "sleep" function on my Vostro A90. It's very close to what my Mac does, but not exactly the same behavior.

So to get to my point, do I have the sleep function set correctly on my Vostro? Or is this the best I'm going to get? What are your observations?

[reflex]

The power LED should "throb" when the machine is suspended to RAM.

[underwhelmed]

And it shouldn't be warm if it is sleeping for any length of time.

I am also concerned about your display blanking out on resume, I have done a few of these now, and I haven't seen that behavior.

[kumazemi]

I think I have it figured out now. I had 2 settings in the BIOS reversed. I had "USB BIOS Legacy Support" disabled and "USB Wake Support" enabled. Looks like I had these settings backwards. Fixed 'em, saved and booted up and now it seems to sleep correctly. The white power LED pulses now like a normal Mac when it's asleep.

Huzzah!

[louididdy]

Have you install smartsleep? Look at my guide that talks about it:

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