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Hello Everyone,
I am new to Arch, and all signs indicate that it is finally my long-after-searched distro. Specifically, I switched from a very short dip into gentoo (gnome compilation...) and now really like arch docs and experience so far.
I managed easily to get through installation, helped by the excellent docs. After getting gnome to work, I now want to enable suspend to ram and suspend to disk. Suspend to ram (from gnome power applet) does not work, it blanks my screen, computer still runs normally and I can not get gnome back. Always need to do a hard reset.
I installed pm-utils, acpi, gnome-extra etc. as pointed out on the pm-utils and gnome wiki.
I understood that gnome uses hal for suspend by default, so this is a starting point I guess. The output of suspend in /var/log/pm-suspend.log is not helpful, since all hooks are run and it reads "performing suspend"
Thu Jan 27 21:34:52 CET 2011: Running hooks for suspend.
Running hook /usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/00logging suspend suspend:
Linux anvil 2.6.36-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Mon Jan 24 18:34:55 UTC 2011 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux
Module Size Used by
ipv6 244945 10
ext2 55656 1
snd_seq_dummy 1079 0
usbhid 32169 0
hid 60432 1 usbhid
radeon 814837 2
snd_seq_oss 25040 0
snd_seq_midi_event 4528 1 snd_seq_oss
snd_intel8x0 22230 0
snd_seq 41688 5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_wavefront 28237 0
ttm 43438 1 radeon
snd_cs4236 21996 0
snd_ac97_codec 87943 1 snd_intel8x0
drm_kms_helper 23055 1 radeon
snd_wss_lib 17822 2 snd_wavefront,snd_cs4236
snd_pcm_oss 33694 0
snd_opl3_lib 7266 2 snd_wavefront,snd_cs4236
drm 142807 4 radeon,ttm,drm_kms_helper
snd_hwdep 4764 2 snd_wavefront,snd_opl3_lib
snd_mixer_oss 14654 1 snd_pcm_oss
ac97_bus 762 1 snd_ac97_codec
analog 7715 0
lp 6652 0
snd_mpu401 3800 0
snd_mpu401_uart 4927 3 snd_wavefront,snd_cs4236,snd_mpu401
snd_pcm 59136 5 snd_intel8x0,snd_cs4236,snd_ac97_codec,snd_wss_lib,snd_pcm_oss
i2c_algo_bit 4183 1 radeon
snd_rawmidi 15288 2 snd_wavefront,snd_mpu401_uart
ohci_hcd 19051 0
usblp 9636 0
ppdev 4862 0
snd_timer 15583 4 snd_seq,snd_wss_lib,snd_opl3_lib,snd_pcm
parport_pc 27832 1
ehci_hcd 32908 0
snd_seq_device 4369 5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_opl3_lib,snd_rawmidi
i2c_nforce2 4408 0
ns558 2007 0
usbcore 115866 5 usbhid,ohci_hcd,usblp,ehci_hcd
snd 43219 17 snd_seq_oss,snd_intel8x0,snd_seq,snd_wavefront,snd_cs4236,snd_ac97_codec,snd_wss_lib,snd_pcm_oss,snd_opl3_lib,snd_hwdep,snd_mixer_oss,snd_mpu401,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_pcm,snd_rawmidi,snd_timer,snd_seq_device
gameport 6917 3 analog,ns558
parport 25499 3 lp,ppdev,parport_pc
nvidia_agp 4112 1
i2c_core 15762 5 radeon,drm_kms_helper,drm,i2c_algo_bit,i2c_nforce2
tpm_tis 6132 0
fuse 56816 3
processor 22776 0
sg 21028 0
button 3746 0
shpchp 23037 0
forcedeth 47178 0
soundcore 4929 1 snd
tpm 9505 1 tpm_tis
evdev 6692 7
thermal 9690 0
agpgart 22816 3 ttm,drm,nvidia_agp
pci_hotplug 21523 1 shpchp
snd_page_alloc 5981 3 snd_intel8x0,snd_wss_lib,snd_pcm
pcspkr 1359 0
tpm_bios 4661 1 tpm
ext4 288261 2
mbcache 4298 2 ext2,ext4
jbd2 58404 1 ext4
crc16 1053 1 ext4
sd_mod 24384 5
sr_mod 13217 0
cdrom 31378 1 sr_mod
pata_acpi 2308 0
pata_amd 7988 4
libata 140436 2 pata_acpi,pata_amd
scsi_mod 106955 4 sg,sd_mod,sr_mod,libata
floppy 48264 0
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 769776 247124 522652 0 27036 92212
-/+ buffers/cache: 127876 641900
Swap: 1052252 0 1052252
/usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/00logging suspend suspend: success.
Running hook /usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/00powersave suspend suspend:
/usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/00powersave suspend suspend: success.
Running hook /usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/01grub suspend suspend:
/usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/01grub suspend suspend: success.
Running hook /usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/11netcfg suspend suspend:
/usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/11netcfg suspend suspend: success.
Running hook /usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/49bluetooth suspend suspend:
/usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/49bluetooth suspend suspend: success.
Running hook /usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/75modules suspend suspend:
/usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/75modules suspend suspend: success.
Running hook /usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/90clock suspend suspend:
/usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/90clock suspend suspend: success.
Running hook /usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/94cpufreq suspend suspend:
/usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/94cpufreq suspend suspend: success.
Running hook /usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/95led suspend suspend:
/usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/95led suspend suspend: success.
Running hook /usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/98video-quirk-db-handler suspend suspend:
Kernel modesetting video driver detected, not using quirks.
/usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/98video-quirk-db-handler suspend suspend: success.
Running hook /usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/99video suspend suspend:
kernel.acpi_video_flags = 0
/usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/99video suspend suspend: success.
Thu Jan 27 21:34:52 CET 2011: performing suspendAny ideas or hints on this?
Thanks in advance
edit: After some time trying to get it to run with UPower, HAL and User Permission Method, I will end my attempts before I get mad. Fortunately, this machine was set up just to play with arch, and that was really fun. The stinging itch remains: If I could just pin down the error with debugging...
Last edited by phaebz (2011-01-27 21:48:33)
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What graphics card do you have and what graphics driver are you using? From the module list I guess it is an ATI card. You could try to disable KMS:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ati
Another option would be to see if the proprietary ATI drivers work better, if you don't have them already installed.
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Thanks for your reply MadTux!
I have a radeon 7500 with RV200 QW VGA controller.
I use the open driver xf86-video-ati.
I tried both the proprietary and the open driver. To no avail.
One thing though: Through experimenting with both, pc now suspends (drives and cpu down). After resume, drives and cpu start up again, but screen remains black - no control.
I read on the wiki somewhere about vbetool - tried it also with that installed...
I am lost
edit: Will try with KMS disabled...
Last edited by phaebz (2011-01-29 14:02:46)
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