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Really depends on your machine. Suspend (and wakeup!) works great on my Lenovo X220, no fiddling needed at all.



With X? Because the docs themselves say it doesn't work well with X [1]. Would you mind sharing your relevant config?

[1] https://wiki.freebsd.org/SuspendResume


No, I don't mind at all, but what would the relevant configuration files be? As I said, there was no fiddling necessary. The only thing I remember doing is putting `echo kern.vty=vt >> /boot/loader.conf`.


vt is the default anyway! (At least on EFI)


Didn't know that, thanks! I believe it wasn't when I started using the X220, but I'm not sure either way.


That is on 11.0. AFAIK it wasn't in prior releases.


It really depends on the system.

I recently got my hands on a Acer Aspire E-571 (Haswell i3-4030U) and suspend/resume in X with i915kms literally just worked installing FreeBSD 11.0-RC3 from installer and xorg/xdm/openbox from packages, no config file touched (apart from adjusting the keyboard layout and setting the lid_close_state sysctl to S3).

What does not work on it yet is the Elan trackpad, since it is the version that is connected via i2c.




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