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Avenger

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Registered: 2005-11-11

Posts: 65

Suspend to ram stopped working with Acer Aspire 5930G - Arch64

Suspend to ram recently stopped working on my laptop running Arch64. When ever I press the suspend to ram button in kde4 simply nothing happens, no screen flashing or error messages of any kind. I tried to install the pm-utils package and run pm-suspend, but with the same result. The program just ran and nothing happened and no feedback, not even in dmesg.

Here are the recent packages I've installed:

[2009-05-20 00:53] synchronizing package lists
[2009-05-20 00:53] starting full system upgrade
[2009-05-20 00:54] upgraded cpio (2.9-4 -> 2.9-5)
[2009-05-20 00:54] upgraded curl (7.19.4-1 -> 7.19.5-1)
[2009-05-20 00:54] upgraded gconf (2.26.1-2 -> 2.26.2-1)
[2009-05-20 00:54] upgraded glib2 (2.20.1-1 -> 2.20.2-1)
[2009-05-20 00:54] upgraded gmp (4.3.0-1 -> 4.3.1-2)
[2009-05-20 00:54] upgraded gsl (1.12-1 -> 1.12-2)
[2009-05-20 00:54] upgraded gstreamer0.10 (0.10.22-1 -> 0.10.23-1)
[2009-05-20 00:54] upgraded gstreamer0.10-base (0.10.22-1 -> 0.10.23-1)
[2009-05-20 00:54] upgraded irssi (0.8.12-5 -> 0.8.13-1)
[2009-05-20 00:54] upgraded libdrm (2.4.9-1 -> 2.4.11-1)
[2009-05-20 00:54] upgraded libsndfile (1.0.19-1 -> 1.0.20-1)
[2009-05-20 00:54] upgraded mesa (7.4.1-1 -> 7.4.2-1)
[2009-05-20 00:54] upgraded netcfg (2.1.3-3 -> 2.2.0b1-1)
[2009-05-20 00:54] upgraded poppler (0.10.6-1 -> 0.10.7-1)
[2009-05-20 00:54] upgraded poppler-glib (0.10.6-1 -> 0.10.7-1)
[2009-05-20 00:54] upgraded poppler-qt (0.10.6-1 -> 0.10.7-1)
[2009-05-20 00:54] upgraded ppp (2.4.4-7 -> 2.4.4-8)
[2009-05-20 00:54] upgraded psmisc (22.6-2.1 -> 22.7-1)
[2009-05-20 00:54] upgraded pycairo (1.8.2-1 -> 1.8.4-1)
[2009-05-20 00:54] upgraded subversion (1.6.2-1 -> 1.6.2-2)
[2009-05-21 12:57] installed festival (1.96beta-2)
[2009-05-21 13:01] installed festival-awb-arctic (1.0-1)
[2009-05-21 13:03] removed festival-awb-arctic (1.0-1)
[2009-05-21 13:03] removed festival (1.96beta-2)
[2009-05-21 13:48] installed libmikmod (3.1.12-2)
[2009-05-21 13:48] installed smpeg (0.4.4-5)
[2009-05-21 13:48] installed sdl_mixer (1.2.8-3)
[2009-05-21 13:48] installed ode (0.11-1)
[2009-05-21 13:48] installed sdl_ttf (2.0.9-1)
[2009-05-21 13:48] installed sdl_net (1.2.7-2)
[2009-05-21 13:48] installed xmoto (0.5.1-2)

Note, I tried to do a -Syu just now and got a new kernel, but it did not change anything.

EDIT: I'm also currently running the nvidia 180.60 driver.

Last edited by Avenger (2009-05-22 17:52:05)

MoonSwan

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From: Great White North

Registered: 2008-01-23

Posts: 881

Re: Suspend to ram stopped working with Acer Aspire 5930G - Arch64

We both run Acer's it seems with a similar issue.  My suspend also stopped functioning a few days ago (presumably after an update?) but I only noticed a day or so later so I can't be sure which update has done this.  My acer is an Aspire 5050-5554 (or so says the little sticker) with an Ati 200m chip.  Closing the lid by itself used to suspend but now it does nothing.  Ditto the kde buttons.

eldragon

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From: Buenos Aires

Registered: 2008-11-18

Posts: 1,029

Re: Suspend to ram stopped working with Acer Aspire 5930G - Arch64

search the forums: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=556030

in the future, i would definately use yaourt to upgrade since it displays better what is being updated and from where.

edit: if pm-suspend fails, check its log (/var/log/pm-suspend.log)

Last edited by eldragon (2009-05-22 18:16:08)

eazy

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From: London, UK

Registered: 2008-01-20

Posts: 97

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Re: Suspend to ram stopped working with Acer Aspire 5930G - Arch64

Hello,
  I've got a Acer Aspire 5930G, running Arch64 and suspend to ram works perfectly (tried executing pm-suspend manually).
  Those are my packages versions:

  pm-utils 1.2.5-1
  kernel26 2.6.29.4-1
  nvidia 180.51-1

  Not using [testing]

  Hope this helps.

eaZy

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