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speed145a

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is it asking too much to be able to suspend in linux?

I posted over in laptop issues but perhaps there is little to no traffic in that area...  http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php? … 70#p527670

I am trying to get resume working on the kde suspend/resume.  the /var/log/pm-suspend.log shows no errors that i can see.

any thoughts?

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MarCustomized

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Re: is it asking too much to be able to suspend in linux?

Have you tried adding the resume hook as shown here?  You can also try removing the autodetect hook.

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pyther

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Re: is it asking too much to be able to suspend in linux?

Does suspend-2-ram work?

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speed145a

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Re: is it asking too much to be able to suspend in linux?

Have you tried adding the resume hook as shown here?  You can also try removing the autodetect hook.

I should clarify, I am trying to suspend to ram.
I do have that hook, but I thought that only applied if trying to suspend to disk.

Does suspend-2-ram work?

I just tried running "s2ram" (via sudo s2ram -f) and I got the same result: unable to read the root disk

In case anyone knows something particular to my hardware, here's my lspci:

00:00.0 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] Memory Controller (rev a2)
00:01.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation Device 075e (rev a2)                            
00:01.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] SMBus (rev a1)                 
00:01.3 Co-processor: nVidia Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] Co-Processor (rev a2)   
00:01.4 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] Memory Controller (rev a1)
00:02.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] OHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev a1)
00:02.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] EHCI USB 2.0 Controller (rev a1)
00:04.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] OHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev a1)
00:04.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] EHCI USB 2.0 Controller (rev a1)
00:06.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] IDE (rev a1)
00:07.0 Audio device: nVidia Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] High Definition Audio (rev a1)
00:08.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] PCI Bridge (rev a1)
00:09.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] SATA Controller (non-AHCI mode) (rev a2)
00:0a.0 Ethernet controller: nVidia Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] Ethernet (rev a2)
00:0b.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] PCI Express Bridge (rev a1)
00:14.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] PCI Bridge (rev a1)
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 11h HyperTransport Configuration (rev 40)
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 11h Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 11h DRAM Controller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 11h Miscellaneous Control
00:18.4 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 11h Link Control
02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GeForce 8200M G (rev a2)
07:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR242x 802.11abg Wireless PCI Express Adapter (rev 01)

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test1000

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Re: is it asking too much to be able to suspend in linux?

try switching kernels to the default one and p -Syu

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speed145a

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Re: is it asking too much to be able to suspend in linux?

try switching kernels to the default one and p -Syu

I am running the default kernel now.  I tried with standard updates, and also tried upgrades from testing with the same result

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Primoz

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Re: is it asking too much to be able to suspend in linux?

I posted over in laptop issues but perhaps there is little to no traffic in that area...  http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php? … 70#p527670

I am trying to get resume working on the kde suspend/resume.  the /var/log/pm-suspend.log shows no errors that i can see.

any thoughts?

Strange. I've just tried, because I've remembered having same problems, but now it works.
I can suspend to RAM from both Kick-Off and "battery" widget.
I have 2.6.28 kernel and KDE4.2.2.
And I don't even have resume in HOOKS.

But I do have desktop instead of laptop.
But hardware is quite similar to yours, yours is still better:

00:00.0 Memory controller: nVidia Corporation CK804 Memory Controller (rev a2)                                                  
00:01.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 ISA Bridge (rev a2)                                                                
00:01.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation CK804 SMBus (rev a2)
00:02.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation CK804 USB Controller (rev a2)
00:02.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation CK804 USB Controller (rev a2)
00:04.0 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation CK804 AC'97 Audio Controller (rev a2)
00:06.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation CK804 IDE (rev a2)
00:07.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation CK804 Serial ATA Controller (rev a2)
00:08.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation CK804 Serial ATA Controller (rev a2)
00:09.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 PCI Bridge (rev a2)
00:0a.0 Bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 Ethernet Controller (rev a2)
00:0b.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 PCIE Bridge (rev a2)
00:0c.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 PCIE Bridge (rev a2)
00:0d.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 PCIE Bridge (rev a2)
00:0e.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 PCIE Bridge (rev a2)
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control
01:0b.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Agere Systems FW323 (rev 61)
05:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV43 [GeForce 6600] (rev a2)

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speed145a

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Re: is it asking too much to be able to suspend in linux?

But hardware is quite similar to yours, yours is still better:

its funny how "better" hardware in linux can often translate to worse stability and performance 

thanks for the comment, that may indicate that updates will be around the corner to fix my problem

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