[linux-laptop] S3 slow resume

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i've got a sony vaio with slackware 10.2 and a 2.6.13.4 kernel on it. i've been pretty successful getting S4 to work but i've had a few issues resuming from S3. Basically, this is what happens when i do an "echo mem > /sys/power/state": it goes into sleep mode: my power indicator light starts slowly blinking red(i guess that means it's asleep, i think it did this with standby in windows, too).

without the acpi_sleep=bios_s3 parmaeter, when i hit a key, the light turns green(like it's back on) but the screen doesn't come back. with the parameter it resumes like this:
[code]
inu


Back to C!
ipw2200 error -22
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:02.0
...
[/code]
is that normal? the "inu" and "back to c!" stuff seem kinda wierd. after this wakeup stuff(about 30 seconds), i get a prompt and anything i enter in it just kinda ... does nothing. so its like:
[code]
root at slink:~# ls <return>
<blank line> <return>
<blank line> <return>
<blank line> <return>
<blank line> <return>
<blank line> <return>
asdfdsaf
wtf ??????
<blank line> <return>
<blank line> <return>
<blank line> <return>
[/code]
its as if i'm in a program that has crashed and i cant break out of it. at this point i still have keyboard control, etc. but i cant ctrl+alt+del to reboot and i cant actually do anything. after about 2 minutes of this, i hear a little whir(the hd spin up maybe?) and everything works(successful suspend/resume) but that's way too long, i could have used S4 and resumed faster than that. is there anything i can do to speed up my resume from S3?

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