Laptop suspend problem (both pm-utils and s2ram) with fglrx driver

blu3ness · 2008-01-11 22:18:49

Hello all, I know this has probably been mentioned a million times here already, but I'm really stuck and desperately in need of help. This is my first time trying a completely new distrobution that's not based off of Ubuntu and I'm loving it 100% already . The only problem that's preventing me to use Arch as frequently as I like was the problem with suspend/hibernate.

I have read everything on the Archlinux wiki on the topic of Suspend/Hibernate, I have also attempted to disable framebuffer at Grub menu by passing vga=0 at start up, but this didn't help.

I red about it on Ubuntu launchpad that this bug is caused by the newer SLAB kernel module (memory allocator of some sort), and if I compile my own kernel to use the previous SLUB module, it would probably fix the problem. Should I recompile my kernel?

I want to know if anyone having similar issues found any workarounds. That would be much appreciated.

The following is my lspci video card output, I have changed the video memory to 64 Mb but apparently that didn't do anything

01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon XPRESS 200M 5955 (PCIE) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
    Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Unknown device 30ae
    Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 255, IRQ 16
    Memory at d4000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M]
    I/O ports at 9000 [size=256]
    Memory at d0100000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
    [virtual] Expansion ROM at d0120000 [disabled] [size=128K]
    Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2

The following is my s2ram -i output

This machine can be identified by:
    sys_vendor   = "Hewlett-Packard"
    sys_product  = "Presario V5000 (EZ563UA#ABL)      "
    sys_version  = "F.42"
    bios_version = "F.42"
See http://suspend.sf.net/s2ram-support.html for details.

mintcoffee · 2008-01-12 05:12:51

From my understanding, the latest catalyst (new name for fglrx) is compatible with SLUB. I have an ATI FireGL V5200, and Resume to X is broken with the latest driver. I hate to say, but suspend and hibernate with catalyst/fglrx is a pretty sketchy area, and it may or may not work depending on a large number of issues.

If you're not interested in having 3D capabilities, I would suggest using the radeonhd driver. It's still early in its development, but it works well enough and suspend and hibernate generally work with it.

blu3ness · 2008-01-12 08:26:25

thanks, I'll look up the radeonhd, yeah at the moment I'm just looking to get suspend/hibernate working, all the bells and whistles can wait till later. Having a stable system for my coding and development needs is what's on my plate right now. Thanks!

[UPDATE]

The radeonhd driver currently does not support my model of video card, Mobile radeon x200 express. I guess that's a shame.

[UPDATE 2]

I'm trying to compile a custom kernel to SLAB instead of SLUB and see if it works well with fglrx, Trying to get the custom kernel to boot atm... lol

Last edited by blu3ness (2008-01-13 03:39:39)

rochus · 2008-01-19 12:05:12

Have a look at the catalyst 8.1 driver. I didn't try it yet (as I'm waiting for the pacman package to arrive, hehe) but some guys in the phoronix forums mentioned that suspending works again.

blu3ness · 2008-01-19 18:27:57

that's great news, thanks!

neotuli · 2008-01-19 19:12:19

i had the same issue, built the new driver yesterday and it works fine. i'll make sure to keep poking people to make sure it gets updated soon.

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#1 2008-01-11 22:18:49

Laptop suspend problem (both pm-utils and s2ram) with fglrx driver

#2 2008-01-12 05:12:51

Re: Laptop suspend problem (both pm-utils and s2ram) with fglrx driver

#3 2008-01-12 08:26:25

Re: Laptop suspend problem (both pm-utils and s2ram) with fglrx driver

#4 2008-01-19 12:05:12

Re: Laptop suspend problem (both pm-utils and s2ram) with fglrx driver

#5 2008-01-19 18:27:57

Re: Laptop suspend problem (both pm-utils and s2ram) with fglrx driver

#6 2008-01-19 19:12:19

Re: Laptop suspend problem (both pm-utils and s2ram) with fglrx driver

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