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hyxud

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Registered: 2022-07-20

Posts: 10

[SOLVED] Suspend & Hibernate Fails and Freezes

i recently installed arch on this old laptop with no problems but suspending and hibernating fail consistently
after suspend or hibernate the screen turns off and the laptop does not turn off, the fans don't stop, the keyboard lights don't turn off and the laptop becomes absolutely unresponsive, all i can do is hard reboot.

i have hibernation on
kernel parameters configured
an 8 GB swap file
and i switched to LTS kernel

but the problem still occurs, no successful suspends or hibernates yet

my laptop is HP EliteBook 8540w
CPU: Intel i5 M 520 (4) @ 2.400GHz
GPU: NVIDIA Quadro FX 880M (using Nouveau drivers)
Kernel: 5.15.55-1-lts
Memory: 8GB
Swap: 8GB (file)

my mkinitcpio

MODULES=(intel_lpss_pci)
BINARIES=()
FILES=()
HOOKS=(base udev autodetect keyboard keymap modconf block filesystems fsck resume)

and my grub boot config

# GRUB boot loader configuration

GRUB_DEFAULT=0
GRUB_TIMEOUT=5
GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR="Arch"
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="loglevel=3 acpi_osi=Linux resume=UUID=e2ba1249-b68f-48ee-be0c-12505d76cbfb resume_offset=7266304 splash apci"
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="rootfstype=ext4"

# Preload both GPT and MBR modules so that they are not missed
GRUB_PRELOAD_MODULES="part_gpt part_msdos"

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Last edited by hyxud (2022-07-20 16:57:15)

max kaspar

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Registered: 2013-04-11

Posts: 59

Re: [SOLVED] Suspend & Hibernate Fails and Freezes

Try with kernel parameter init_on_alloc=0.

hyxud

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Registered: 2022-07-20

Posts: 10

Re: [SOLVED] Suspend & Hibernate Fails and Freezes

Try with kernel parameter init_on_alloc=0.

thank you so much, both suspend and hibernate now work with no issue