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kamocat

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Registered: 2014-08-21

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Asus Vivobook freezes after extended suspend

Hi all,
My laptop occasionally freezes after suspend, especially if I don't use it for more than a day.
When I open the lid, the mouse and keyboard don't work. However, the screen does turn on and show my desktop environment with some time in the recent past. (I'm assuming the time shown is the time that the system froze, like the stopped clock mysteries, but it could be the time I shut the lid)
I think I have typically had the charger plugged in while it was sleeping. I don't believe hibernate is enabled.

Here's what I've tried:

• Switching from Wayland to Xorg. No change. (I was using KDE Plasma but now am using LXDM with Budgie)

• linux-lts kernel. No change. I don't remember which exact kernel I tried, but I'm on linux-6.4.7 right now and I've had this issue since I got the laptop a few months ago. I guess I was hoping a kernel patch would come along and fix it without my having to do anything. There are also issues with the WiFi card not working after reboot which are probably unrelated. A poweroff/poweron without the charger fixes this.

Here's where I need help:

• Will the repeatability of freezes provide any useful information?

• What should I be looking for in the system journal?

kamocat

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Registered: 2014-08-21

Posts: 24

Re: Asus Vivobook freezes after extended suspend

So I read the wiki some more and found there is a new suspend mode, S2Idle, which can be used instead of the S3 suspend mode. Presumably this would happen on battery power, where regular suspend might still be used when on the charger.

Anyway, I set up hibernate for the power button, which works well (only 11 seconds boot time) and am considering hybrid-sleep for when I close the lid.

seth

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Re: Asus Vivobook freezes after extended suspend

What's the actual HW of that thing?

lspci

Notably nvidia struggles w/ VRAM decay, therefore provides https://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Lin … ement.html

There are also issues with the WiFi card not working after reboot which are probably unrelated. A poweroff/poweron without the charger fixes this.

Do you have a parallel windows installation?

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ewaller

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Registered: 2009-07-13

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Re: Asus Vivobook freezes after extended suspend

I think you may me fighting the same thing I was here: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=278124

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kamocat

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Registered: 2014-08-21

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Re: Asus Vivobook freezes after extended suspend

It has an AMD Ryzen 5 4600H with Radeon Graphics.
It came with Windows but I removed the partition so I could fit a larger boot partition (because there wasn't room for linux-lts initramfs)

I checked the UEFI menu but there was no VMD option.