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mino.sk

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Registered: 2011-07-07

Posts: 16

Random problems with suspending notebook

Hi,
I've recently migrated from Ubuntu distribution to Arch hoping to solve some issues and the most of them has been solved except for one that really bothers me - suspending problem.

When I suspend my notebook, it works, say, 10 times in a row, but then this scenario happens:
Notebook suspends normally but after resuming, a frozen virtual console (the one that shows after Ctrl+Alt+F1) is on screen instead of my Gnome session. It's frozen - so I cannot type anything. Though, I can switch to Gnome by pressing Ctrl+Alt+F7 (sometimes F8) and continue working. BUT it seems that everything related to ACPI or power mgmt is broken now because I can't set display brightnees, suspending nor hibernation doesn't work (when I try to suspend, my network is disconnected but system stays powered on) and sometimes even power consumption raises to 30W instead of my usual ~13W.
When I restart system, it starts over - everything works (suspend / hiber. / brightness...) but after some successful suspendings it goes wrong again.

I have Acer Aspire TimelineX 3820TG notebook with a dedicated ATI graphics switched off in BIOS.
This is what my "kernel line" in /boot/grub/menu.lst looks like:

kernel /boot/vmlinuz26 root=... ro resume=... radeon.modeset=0 acpi_osi=Linux noapic ipv6.disable=1

I've used "noapic" because I've read in another topic in this forum that it might help... I don't know, it could be better now or just a coincidence...

What I tried but didn't work:
- suspending via keyboard shortcut / lid closing / "Suspend" menu in Gnome / "sudo pm-suspend" command - it makes no difference
- blacklisting "gdm", so after boot I ended up in VT and here I used root / normal account to "pm-suspend", but with the same result, so it is not Gnome related
- "acpi=strict" boot parameter... it was even worse
- "i8042.reset=1" boot parameter... no difference

mino.sk

Member

Registered: 2011-07-07

Posts: 16

Re: Random problems with suspending notebook

No one has similar problem?