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poobare

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Registered: 2009-03-09

Posts: 10

Laptop Won't Resume after pm-suspend

pm-hibernate works fine, but no such luck with pm-suspend. The last line in /var/log/pm-suspend.log is the "performing suspend one", there's nothing after that and no errors anywhere. I find a ton of posts when searching for things like "pm-suspend screen blank". In all of those posts the problem usually has something to do with vbetool, but implementing the solution doesn't help in my case. I think that my problem is happening earlier. I also tried removing the "autodetect" hook which I read somewhere might help (it didn't).

When I press the power button to try to resume the cpu fan turns on, but the harddisk led doesn't light up at all. I found a good site on HAL sleep quirks (http://people.freedesktop.org/~hughsien … index.html), and it suggested that I might need to use "--quirk-s3-bios or --quirk-s3-mode" because of this. It didn't change anything though.

Does anybody have any suggestions? Thanks.

breakdown

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From: Italy

Registered: 2009-03-04

Posts: 14

Re: Laptop Won't Resume after pm-suspend

On my laptop (Acer Aspire 1640, with Intel 915GM video card, testing drivers), for suspending I have to add the option --quirk-vbestate-restore:

pm-suspend --quirk-vbestate-restore

Maybe this also works for you.

Last edited by breakdown (2009-03-09 10:09:09)

poobare

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Registered: 2009-03-09

Posts: 10

Re: Laptop Won't Resume after pm-suspend

The following quirks are added automatically from HAL already so that didn't fix it:

--quirk-dpms-on --quirk-dpms-suspend --quirk-vbe-post --quirk-vbemode-restore --quirk-vbestate-restore --quirk-vga-mode-3

Thanks for the tip though.