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ianks

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Registered: 2015-06-02

Posts: 3

Suspend only works for first suspend; later attempts fail (Catalyst)

Currently I am attempting to get suspend working on my desktop. I had managed to get it working, and right after cracking a bottle of Martenellis in celebration, I come to find out the if I enter suspend again, my screen stays black. Sigh.

Now, I am nearly 100% positive this has to do with the Cataylst I am using for my Radeon 6850. I have enabled set the kernel flag

vga=0

properly. In fact, this was what originally allowed me to have the first sucessful suspend.

What could cause the suspend to work once, then fail if attempted again? I am fairly good at problem-solving, so even if you do not know the exact answer your thoughts would be appreciated here. Thanks!!

$ fglrxinfo
display: :0  screen: 0
OpenGL vendor string: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: AMD Radeon HD 6800 Series 
OpenGL version string: 4.4.13374 Compatibility Profile Context 15.20.1013

Xanomead

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Registered: 2015-05-31

Posts: 29

Re: Suspend only works for first suspend; later attempts fail (Catalyst)

I'm having a very similar issue, but someone else said that they had also had it happen twice to them and they're using an Intel graphics card. Currently I've disabled C6/C7 power states for my CPU to see if that will help. It really shouldn't have any effect, but I've already tried so much.

My issue is that if I leave my machine alone and it goes idle and puts the screen to sleep, often the screen won't come back up, it just remains black. I've tried disabling ACPI and that didn't seem to help.

ianks

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Registered: 2015-06-02

Posts: 3

Re: Suspend only works for first suspend; later attempts fail (Catalyst)

My machine will put the screen to sleep but scuessfully bring it back up on return. The problem I have is when I explictly run a `sudo systemctl suspend` command. Sorry about yours issues. Which kernel are you on?