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simion314

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Registered: 2008-07-29

Posts: 34

[Solved]Unable to suspend

Hi i have this situation:
i can suspend in ubuntu 8.10 with fglrx and in fedora 11 with vesa driver
i can't suspend in anythyng that uses free ati driver, i tried arch with xorg 1.5 and 1.6 and free drivers, ubuntu 9.04, mandriva 2008.1

My conclusion is that the free xf86-vide-ati is the main problem.

The laptop suspends but when it resumes it stays black and i can't get in tty1 or use ctrl+alt+del, i had to force a reboot.

Is it posible to fix this?

I downgraded to xorg 1.5 but catalyst-old from AUR requiers kernel 2.6.29 so i have to downgrade the kernel too but this mean to build my own modules for virtualbox and other programs that use kernel modules.

It would be nice to find a better way.
Thx

my video card
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RC410 [Radeon Xpress 200M]

and i have a suspend log but not a resume log, in the suspend log i get a Suspend succesfull or something, no errors

I downgraded to kernel 2.6.29  and i installed catalys-old from AUR, i can suspend but i gel  under 300 FPS

Last edited by simion314 (2009-07-11 13:05:32)

djszapi

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Registered: 2009-06-14

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Re: [Solved]Unable to suspend

Did you follow these pages ?

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Suspend_to_Disk
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Suspend_to_RAM

Have you ever tried for it other drivers too? Is it a kernel panic in this case? can't alt+sysrq+ S/U/B too?

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tomk

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Registered: 2004-07-21

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Re: [Solved]Unable to suspend

Suspend with xf86-video-ati works for me.  I didn't do anything special to achieve that, just followed the Suspend to RAM wiki page.

I use uswsusp, if that helps.

simion314

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Registered: 2008-07-29

Posts: 34

Re: [Solved]Unable to suspend

Did you follow these pages ?

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Suspend_to_Disk
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Suspend_to_RAM

Have you ever tried for it other drivers too? Is it a kernel panic in this case? can't alt+sysrq+ S/U/B too?

I tried the s2ram and it didn't know my machine, same result as normal resume it hangs. I read there that are more trikc to try but i do not have the time now(exams) to try those combination. I hoped that other Archers with ATI cards have had this problem and can point me in the right direction.

simion314

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Registered: 2008-07-29

Posts: 34

Re: [Solved]Unable to suspend

Suspend with xf86-video-ati works for me.  I didn't do anything special to achieve that, just followed the Suspend to RAM wiki page.

I use uswsusp, if that helps.

Maybe your laptop is in the withlist and s2ram knows how to handle it.

Svenstaro

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From: Germany

Registered: 2008-11-19

Posts: 390

Re: [Solved]Unable to suspend

How did you solve this? I'd like to know since I'm getting the same trouble.

simion314

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Registered: 2008-07-29

Posts: 34

Re: [Solved]Unable to suspend

How did you solve this? I'd like to know since I'm getting the same trouble.

I downgraded to kernel 2.6.29  and i installed catalys-old from AUR, i can suspend but i gel  under 300 FPS
you have to install the old xorg too, sometimes is not reumeing properly, maybe when some aps are running, i am still searching for other solutions.

Last edited by simion314 (2009-07-20 06:28:29)