Bottom of screen flickers with suspend on lid with xfce-power-manager

renaudbus · 2015-03-29 01:36:08

Hello,

I use xfce power manager to manage the acpi events on my laptop. When I close the lid, it suspends, and when I open back the lid the screen goes on but the bottom of the screen flickers and the mouse pointer runs slower. I noticed it gets fixed if I change the screen resolution. So I can sort of fix this thing by changing the screen resolution and come back to the previous one, but this is annoying. What do you think could be the problem? I also noticed that if I simply use "systemctl suspend", and then come back on (without playing with the lid), this flickering won't happen. It happens on suspend on lid down/up controlled by xfce-power-manager.

Thanks a lot for your help

Alad · 2015-03-29 01:50:15

What are your laptop's specifications? Did you check the journal for information? Have you tried suspending without xfce4-power-manager? (by removing upower and xfce4-power-manager)

MoonSwan · 2015-03-29 23:42:51

Have you tried the advice in this XFCE wiki article?

Alad · 2015-03-30 13:18:41

Should no longer be needed with recent versions:

https://mail.xfce.org/pipermail/xfce-an … 00326.html

renaudbus · 2015-04-17 15:29:52

Hello,

I have not replied in a while because I've been busy, but I also tested different stuff to try to understand this issue. So far, it seems to happen erratically. I uninstalled xfce4-power-manager and disabled the uPower service so now I use systemd's own suspend function (which is temporary because it doesn't consider battery usage). When I close the lid, then open it up later, four things can happen:

- Everything comes back normally.
- Sometimes Xorg has disconnected, it then restarts automatically (I do not use a login manager, xinit is configured to start on startup).
- The display comes back but there is a flickering at the bottom of the screen, and the mouse cursor is somewhat slower, some bugs maybe with the refresh rate or something... like I said I can resolve this by switching the screen resolution to something else and then come back.
- Sometimes, NetworkManager doesn't connect automaticly. I have to type "systemctl restart NetworkManager" to restart it.

Also, sometimes both NetworkManager and the screen flickinering issue happen at the same time.

I haven't found a logic for what happens when.

Looking through "dmesg", I found this:

[ 4.367946] systemd[1]: Cannot add dependency job for unit display-manager.service, ignoring: Unit display-manager.service failed to load: No such file or directory.
[ 4.845643] EXT4-fs (sda1): re-mounted. Opts: data=ordered
[ 6.838930] systemd-journald[142]: Received request to flush runtime journal from PID 1
[ 7.041960] ACPI: processor limited to max C-state 1
[ 7.330212] input: Power Button as /devices/LNXSYSTM:00/LNXSYBUS:00/PNP0C0C:00/input/input6
[ 7.330224] ACPI: Power Button [PWRB]
[ 7.330370] input: Lid Switch as /devices/LNXSYSTM:00/LNXSYBUS:00/PNP0C0D:00/input/input7
[ 7.330810] ACPI: Lid Switch [LID]
[ 7.330905] input: Power Button as /devices/LNXSYSTM:00/LNXPWRBN:00/input/input8
[ 7.330909] ACPI: Power Button [PWRF]
[ 7.449189] thermal LNXTHERM:00: registered as thermal_zone0
[ 7.449197] ACPI: Thermal Zone [TZ00] (27 C)
[ 7.461630] ACPI: Video Device [VGA] (multi-head: yes rom: no post: no)
[ 7.461763] [Firmware Bug]: ACPI: No _BQC method, cannot determine initial brightness
[ 7.462325] acpi device:24: registered as cooling_device2
[ 7.462438] input: Video Bus as /devices/LNXSYSTM:00/LNXSYBUS:00/PNP0A08:00/device:23/LNXVIDEO:00/input/input9
[ 7.484097] ACPI: Battery Slot [BAT1] (battery present)
[ 7.485116] ACPI: AC Adapter [ACAD] (on-line)
[ 7.485494] wmi: Mapper loaded
[ 7.662272] Non-volatile memory driver v1.3
[ 7.668046] piix4_smbus 0000:00:14.0: SMBus Host Controller at 0x8040, revision 0
[ 7.668164] piix4_smbus 0000:00:14.0: Auxiliary SMBus Host Controller at 0x8060
[ 7.709434] thinkpad_acpi: ThinkPad ACPI Extras v0.25
[ 7.709440] thinkpad_acpi: http://ibm-acpi.sf.net/
[ 7.709443] thinkpad_acpi: ThinkPad BIOS 6ZET31WW (1.18 ), EC 6ZHT24WW-1.169000
[ 7.709446] thinkpad_acpi: Lenovo ThinkPad Edge, model 019726U
[ 7.710523] thinkpad_acpi: detected a 16-level brightness capable ThinkPad
[ 7.710849] thinkpad_acpi: radio switch found; radios are enabled
[ 7.710860] thinkpad_acpi: possible tablet mode switch found; ThinkPad in laptop mode
[ 7.710881] thinkpad_acpi: This ThinkPad has standard ACPI backlight brightness control, supported by the ACPI video driver
[ 7.710883] thinkpad_acpi: Disabling thinkpad-acpi brightness events by default...
[ 7.712090] thinkpad_acpi: asked for hotkey mask 0x04000070, but firmware forced it to 0x00000070
[ 7.720059] thinkpad_acpi: Standard ACPI backlight interface available, not loading native one
[ 7.720200] thinkpad_acpi: Console audio control enabled, mode: monitor (read only)
[ 7.723966] input: ThinkPad Extra Buttons as /devices/platform/thinkpad_acpi/input/input10
[ 7.764976] sp5100_tco: SP5100/SB800 TCO WatchDog Timer Driver v0.05
[ 7.765100] sp5100_tco: PCI Revision ID: 0x3c
[ 7.765160] sp5100_tco: failed to find MMIO address, giving up.
[ 7.837712] MCE: In-kernel MCE decoding enabled.
[ 7.905817] EDAC MC: Ver: 3.0.0
[ 7.970366] AMD64 EDAC driver v3.4.0
[ 7.970424] EDAC amd64: DRAM ECC disabled.
[ 7.970433] EDAC amd64: ECC disabled in the BIOS or no ECC capability, module will not load.
Either enable ECC checking or force module loading by setting 'ecc_enable_override'.
(Note that use of the override may cause unknown side effects.)
[ 8.070182] k8temp 0000:00:18.3: Temperature readouts might be wrong - check erratum #141

[ 8.811105] kvm: disabled by bios
[ 8.840846] kvm: disabled by bios
[ 8.899590] powernow_k8: [Firmware Bug]: No compatible ACPI _PSS objects found.
[Firmware Bug]: First, make sure Cool'N'Quiet is enabled in the BIOS.
[Firmware Bug]: If that doesn't help, try upgrading your BIOS.

Here are my computer specifications:

Lenovo Notebook ThinkPad Edge 13

MODEL: 0197-26U
SERIAL NUMBER: LRBBGK4

BIOS: 6ZET31WW (1.18) (Capabilities: PCI bus, PnP, BIOS EEPROM can be upgraded, BIOS shadowing, ESCD, Booting from CD/DVD, ACPI, USB Legacy emulation)
CPU: AMD Athlon Neo X2 Dual Core L325 (1.5GHz) 64 Bits (Clock: 200 MHz)
RAM: 1x 2 GB, 667 MHz, 1.5 ns, DIMM DDR2 Synchronous
VGA: AMD/ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3200 (RS780M) 32 bits 33 MHz
AUDIO: AMD/ATI RS780 Radeon (HG) 3000 Series HDMI Audio
AUDIO: AMD/ATI SBx00 Azalia Intel HDA
ETHERNET: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit (Size: 10Mb/s) (Capacity: 1 Gb/s)
WIRELESS: Realtek RTL8191SEvB IEEE 80211bgn
STORAGE: Hitachi HTS54502 ATA 250 GB SCSI
MOUSE: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad
MOUSE: TPPS/2 IBM TrackPoint
MOUSE: USB-PS/2 Logitech Optical Mouse
KEYBOARD: AT Translated Set 2 Keyboard
CAMERA: Suyin Integrated Camera

Thanks for your help!

Arch Linux

#1 2015-03-29 01:36:08

Bottom of screen flickers with suspend on lid with xfce-power-manager

#2 2015-03-29 01:50:15

Re: Bottom of screen flickers with suspend on lid with xfce-power-manager

#3 2015-03-29 23:42:51

Re: Bottom of screen flickers with suspend on lid with xfce-power-manager

#4 2015-03-30 13:18:41

Re: Bottom of screen flickers with suspend on lid with xfce-power-manager

#5 2015-04-17 15:29:52

Re: Bottom of screen flickers with suspend on lid with xfce-power-manager

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