Dell laptop suspend doesn't work right

kett · 2008-04-22 00:44:47

I've installed pm-utils, and hibernate works great, but suspend doesn't quite work. It appears to suspend properly. But on wake up it comes back to a black screen. I have to Ctrl-Alt-Backspace to be able to use it again. I checked the logs and it says everything is working fine. Does anyone have any ideas?

Its a Dell 640M/e1405, running kdemod.

elliott · 2008-04-22 02:42:24

Maybe have pm-utils run "vbetool dpms on" when the system wakes up.

thayer · 2008-04-22 03:01:20

Likely an issue with your graphics card... post your specs and Xorg driver and someone may be able to help.

kett · 2008-04-22 14:59:09

elliott: that doesn't do it

My graphics card is an Intel integrated graphics card. I believe its an Intel 945.
As far as xorg, I ran Xorg -version and got X.Org X Server 1.4.0.90

biio · 2008-04-22 20:44:48

I have a similar problem on my D520 with an Intel 945 card. I have found that going to the normal console by pressing ctrl-alt-f1 (or any of the other ones for that mater) and then back to X solves it without having to restart X for you.
I am not sure this will solve you problem but it is worth a try, and if you find a real solution please post it.

alex_anthony · 2008-04-22 22:10:02

I found that on my dell (similar to yours) sometimes if it came up with a black screen then i closed the ld and opened it again, the screen would start up properly

.:B:. · 2008-04-22 23:18:14

Check whether changing virtual terminals helps?

kett · 2008-04-23 02:47:55

Well, I've everyone's ideas. The only thing I got to work was biio's idea. I just press Ctrl-Alt-F1 and then Ctrl-Alt-F7. Does anyone know of a way to put these keypress's into a script.

.:B:. · 2008-04-23 09:15:01

That's changing virtual terminals Then again I didn't see he suggested the same thing as me

Put it in a hacks file like this:

[stijn@hermes ~]$ cat /etc/pm/sleep.d/00hacks 
#!/bin/bash
case $1 in
    suspend)
        chvt 1
        ;;
    resume)
        chvt 7
        ;;
esac

I presume you're running the intel driver, the i810 driver does not have this problem resuming afaik.

Last edited by B (2008-04-23 09:16:14)

kett · 2008-04-23 14:08:14

@B

To be honest I didn't know what you meant by virtual terminals. (I don't know a whole lot about linux.) Thanks for the script, though. It didn't work the way you gave me. I got it to work by moving the "chvt 1" line to right before the "chvt 7" line.

.:B:. · 2008-04-23 14:29:28

Strange... It works that way here. Anyway, if it works for you, that's what counts .

bioe007 · 2008-04-27 04:50:58

i too had the dim screen after suspend, I solved it by rebuilding the intel driver from git, afaik anything after 20080331 should fix it without having to chvt.

kett · 2008-05-01 18:08:16

I found another way to solve this problem. Just thought I'd let people know. What I'm doing now is running pm-suspend with the following flags

--quirk-vga-mode3
--quirk-vbestate-restore
--quirk-vbe-post

so the call is

pm-suspend --quirk-vga-mode3 --quirk-vbestate-restore --quirk-vbe-post

axelgenus · 2008-05-03 22:06:43

kett wrote:

I found another way to solve this problem. Just thought I'd let people know. What I'm doing now is running pm-suspend with the following flags
--quirk-vga-mode3
--quirk-vbestate-restore
--quirk-vbe-post
so the call is
pm-suspend --quirk-vga-mode3 --quirk-vbestate-restore --quirk-vbe-post

Thank you so much! This method does work for me: I had the same problem with the same video adapter on a HP nx7400. Now pm-suspend works but GNOME doesn't suspend my laptop (it tells me there are some problems with the quirks).

kett · 2008-05-04 00:14:29

I'm not sure about the GNOME thing. I use kde, so I'm not going to be much help. You might want to try only using --quirk-vbestate-restore and only one of the other two, instead of all three.

axelgenus · 2008-05-04 07:44:54

Hurray! I made it work! I only needed to add my user to the "power" group. The quirks were already configured in /usr/share/hal/fdi/information/10freedesktop/20-video-quirk-pm-hp.fdi. My laptop only needed "VBE State Restore" and "VBE Post". Finally I can use suspend and hibernate...

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