Hi guys, Just wondering if any one has Suspend-To-RAM and, more importantly, Resume-From-RAM working on this notebook, or a similar one? It seems to suspend nicely, but on resume, I just get a blank screen and CPU fan at full speed. I've fiddled endlessly with the settings in the sleep file - no joy. My hardware looks like this: 00:00.0 Host bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 Host Bridge (rev 01) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 PCI Bridge 00:04.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc Unknown device 5a36 00:05.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc Unknown device 5a37 00:13.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 USB Host Controller 00:13.1 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 USB Host Controller 00:13.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 USB2 Host Controller 00:14.0 SMBus: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 SMBus Controller (rev 11) 00:14.1 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE Controller ATI 00:14.3 ISA bridge: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 PCI-ISA Bridge 00:14.4 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 PCI-PCI Bridge 00:14.5 Multimedia audio controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02) 00:14.6 Modem: ATI Technologies Inc ATI SB400 - AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 02) 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 01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc ATI Radeon XPRESS 200M 5955 (PCIE) 02:01.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5788 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 03) 02:02.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02) 02:04.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCIxx21/x515 Cardbus Controller 02:04.2 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments OHCI Compliant IEEE 1394 Host Controller 02:04.3 Mass storage controller: Texas Instruments PCIxx21 Integrated FlashMedia Controller 02:04.4 Class 0805: Texas Instruments PCI6411, PCI6421, PCI6611, PCI6621, PCI7411, PCI7421, PCI7611, PCI7621 Secure Digital (SD) Controller CPU is a Turion64, I'm running the fglrx driver 8.26.18 Thanks Hans
On Thursday 05 October 2006 15:38, Hans du Plooy wrote:
Hi guys,
Just wondering if any one has Suspend-To-RAM and, more importantly, Resume-From-RAM working on this notebook, or a similar one? It seems to suspend nicely, but on resume, I just get a blank screen and CPU fan at full speed. I've fiddled endlessly with the settings in the sleep file - no joy.
My hardware looks like this:
On my somewhat older laptop (Sony mobile P4, ATI Radion 7500) suspend to ram works as does suspend to disk. Spend to disk is utterly reliable, although I often have to yank and re-insert the wireless nic (which is faster than ifdown ath0, ifup-dhcp ath0) but other than than it works perfectly. Even Vmware machines running in the Linux host are alive after the host is restarted from suspend to disk. Suspend to ram sort of works, and I've used it a few times but there seems to be a few more wake-up problems, with various programs not responding, etc, so I don't tend to use that as much, and never when I have a lot going on. -- _____________________________________ John Andersen
On Thu, 2006-10-05 at 17:12 -0800, John Andersen wrote:
On Thursday 05 October 2006 15:38, Hans du Plooy wrote:
Hi guys,
Just wondering if any one has Suspend-To-RAM and, more importantly, Resume-From-RAM working on this notebook, or a similar one? It seems to suspend nicely, but on resume, I just get a blank screen and CPU fan at full speed. I've fiddled endlessly with the settings in the sleep file - no joy.
My hardware looks like this:
On my somewhat older laptop (Sony mobile P4, ATI Radion 7500) suspend to ram works as does suspend to disk.
Spend to disk is utterly reliable, although I often have to yank and re-insert the wireless nic (which is faster than ifdown ath0, ifup-dhcp ath0) Sigh. Mine is built in, and the button only seems to switch the wireless LED on and off.
but other than than it works perfectly. Even Vmware machines running in the Linux host are alive after the host is restarted from suspend to disk. Thanks. Did you have to do anything special for this to work? Suspend-To-Disc worked flawlessly on my Compaq P-III, on this one it does, but again, it doesn't wake up.
Suspend to ram sort of works, and I've used it a few times but there seems to be a few more wake-up problems, with various programs not responding That's a pity. A buddy of mine this weekend showed me how well it works on his Powerbook (older G4, OSX of course). He just closes the lid, chucks it in his bag, goes home, takes it out again and type away. It comes out of sleep almost instantly.
I want that.... :-) Thanks Hans
On 10/6/06, Hans du Plooy
Suspend to ram sort of works, and I've used it a few times but there seems to be a few more wake-up problems, with various programs not responding That's a pity. A buddy of mine this weekend showed me how well it works on his Powerbook (older G4, OSX of course). He just closes the lid, chucks it in his bag, goes home, takes it out again and type away. It comes out of sleep almost instantly.
I want that.... :-)
Now that is an example of how a system should work, but then again, the Apple hardware and software are engineered for each other. Unfortunately the HP nx6125 have been engineered for WindowsXP. I have also never been able to get the suspend to work on it. My older HP nx5xxx (cannot remember what the number is), which was the first HP that was shipped with Linux on (If you lived in USA) had suspend working fine. I understand that the issues with the nx6125 is caused by the code in the BIOS. There is a term for it, but I forgot that now and cannot find my links to it anymore. If you do a dmesg, you will find right in the beginning: --<snip>-- ACPI: RSDP (v000 HP ) @ 0x00000000000fe270 ACPI: RSDT (v001 HP 0944 0x01070520 HP 0x00000001) @ 0x0000000077fefc84 ACPI: FADT (v002 HP 0944 0x00000002 HP 0x00000001) @ 0x0000000077fefc00 ACPI: MADT (v001 HP 0944 0x00000001 HP 0x00000001) @ 0x0000000077fefcb8 ACPI: MCFG (v001 HP 0944 0x00000001 HP 0x00000001) @ 0x0000000077fefd14 ACPI: SSDT (v001 HP HPQPpc 0x00001001 MSFT 0x0100000e) @ 0x0000000077ff6dde ACPI: DSDT (v001 HP SB400 0x00010000 MSFT 0x0100000e) @ 0x0000000000000000 --<snip>-- THe last two lines includes "MSFT", and that seems to be the problem. It has been compiled with a Microsoft compiler and thus generate errors in Linux. You can fix it, by recompiling it and re-loading it under Linux and I had a few links that describe the procedure, but never got round to doing it. If I can find those links again, then I will post them here. I did, however found one report where a person got the suspend-to-ram working under Fedora, maybe that can help you? http://forwardsteptech.com/blog/?p=40 -- Andre Truter | Software Consultant | Registered Linux user #185282 Jabber: andre.truter@gmail.com | http://www.trusoft.co.za ~ A dinosaur is a salamander designed to Mil Spec ~
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Friday 2006-10-06 at 01:38 +0200, Hans du Plooy wrote:
Just wondering if any one has Suspend-To-RAM and, more importantly, Resume-From-RAM working on this notebook, or a similar one? It seems to suspend nicely, but on resume, I just get a blank screen and CPU fan at full speed. I've fiddled endlessly with the settings in the sleep file - no joy.
I suppose you know you have settings to automatically unload/reload modules and services on suspend in /etc/sysconfig/powersave/sleep; are those settings the ones you are twidling? Try suspend to disk, maybe that one works better. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFFJiJktTMYHG2NR9URAvXcAJ0dYiXDhZUczV1CTs07xRFKWg1SqwCeOZi6 74wAc4eruoalwOpHP+M8bA8= =gXaz -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
On Fri, 2006-10-06 at 11:31 +0200, Carlos E. R. wrote:
I suppose you know you have settings to automatically unload/reload modules and services on suspend in /etc/sysconfig/powersave/sleep;
Hi Carlos, I'll double check but those services appear to already be configured, because when I hit suspend, the notebook switch to console mode, and the messages tells me "unloading module ...." and stopping some services. The suspend part is fine, it's the resume part that's giving me hassle :-)
Try suspend to disk, maybe that one works better. I would if my swap partition was bigger than my RAM. I got the book with 512MB, planned to upgrade to 1GB, so I made a 2GB swap partition (actually, the remaining space on the disc was slightly less - 1958MB) but I got the memory at a reasonable price, so I opted to get 2GB. Now I have more RAM than swap...
Thanks Hans
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Friday 2006-10-06 at 12:55 +0200, Hans du Plooy wrote:
On Fri, 2006-10-06 at 11:31 +0200, Carlos E. R. wrote:
I suppose you know you have settings to automatically unload/reload modules and services on suspend in /etc/sysconfig/powersave/sleep;
Hi Carlos,
I'll double check but those services appear to already be configured, because when I hit suspend, the notebook switch to console mode, and the messages tells me "unloading module ...." and stopping some services. The suspend part is fine, it's the resume part that's giving me hassle :-)
I know, precisely for that reason ;-) , you may have to add modules to the unload list. The problem is knowing which.
Try suspend to disk, maybe that one works better. I would if my swap partition was bigger than my RAM. I got the book with 512MB, planned to upgrade to 1GB, so I made a 2GB swap partition (actually, the remaining space on the disc was slightly less - 1958MB) but I got the memory at a reasonable price, so I opted to get 2GB. Now I have more RAM than swap...
Ha! I understand. And it has to be a single file, to. I bumped into a similar problem: my swap was divided in two disks for speed, and had to disable one, and thus size was halved and too limited. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFFJj3+tTMYHG2NR9URArdXAJ9Rpnscss0zjdFeJx7dyOstpP5y+ACgjPgL wI+Xpq6iQEvDANEsELSfqDQ= =N83T -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
On Fri, October 6, 2006 3:55 am, Hans du Plooy wrote:
On Fri, 2006-10-06 at 11:31 +0200, Carlos E. R. wrote:
I suppose you know you have settings to automatically unload/reload modules and services on suspend in /etc/sysconfig/powersave/sleep;
Hi Carlos,
I'll double check but those services appear to already be configured, because when I hit suspend, the notebook switch to console mode, and the messages tells me "unloading module ...." and stopping some services. The suspend part is fine, it's the resume part that's giving me hassle :-)
I'm curious - what version of SUSE? I don't remember if you mentioned it in an earlier email. I've had issues with suspend prior to 10.1 and never felt it worked right.
Try suspend to disk, maybe that one works better. I would if my swap partition was bigger than my RAM. I got the book with 512MB, planned to upgrade to 1GB, so I made a 2GB swap partition (actually, the remaining space on the disc was slightly less - 1958MB) but I got the memory at a reasonable price, so I opted to get 2GB. Now I have more RAM than swap...
Okay, too techie for me. So the suspend to disk puts everything in the swap partition? I wasn't aware of that. I - by default - don't trust suspend to RAM on any OS. I'd suggest that maybe you resize your swap partition? You can do this - I think - in YAST. I only use suspend to disk. I have no idea how big my swap is. I think, however, I only have 1G of RAM on the lappie. -- Kai Ponte www.perfectreign.com || www.4thedadz.com remember - a turn signal is a statement, not a request
On Fri, 2006-10-06 at 05:20 -0700, PerfectReign wrote:
I'm curious - what version of SUSE? I don't remember if you mentioned it in an earlier email. I've had issues with suspend prior to 10.1 and never felt it worked right. 10.1
I - by default - don't trust suspend to RAM on any OS. I'd suggest that maybe you resize your swap partition? You can do this - I think - in YAST. That's assuming you have more open disc space... I'm planning to re-do my hard disc either ways - take more space away from windows :-)
Hans
On Fri, October 6, 2006 5:31 am, Hans du Plooy wrote:
On Fri, 2006-10-06 at 05:20 -0700, PerfectReign wrote:
I'm curious - what version of SUSE? I don't remember if you mentioned it in an earlier email. I've had issues with suspend prior to 10.1 and never felt it worked right. 10.1
I - by default - don't trust suspend to RAM on any OS. I'd suggest that maybe you resize your swap partition? You can do this - I think - in YAST. That's assuming you have more open disc space... I'm planning to re-do my hard disc either ways - take more space away from windows :-)
Ahh, gotcha! After dealing with that horrid GRUB issue on my gateway laptop, I've resolved never to dual boot again. =:0 (For the record, I think it is the configuration of the gateway hard drives that messes grub up.) I wish you luck!! Also thanks for the information, I've learned a bit about suspend to disk/suspend to RAM in this thread. -- Kai Ponte www.perfectreign.com || www.4thedadz.com remember - a turn signal is a statement, not a request
Hi. El Viernes, 6 de Octubre de 2006 01:38, Hans du Plooy escribió:
Hi guys,
Just wondering if any one has Suspend-To-RAM and, more importantly, Resume-From-RAM working on this notebook, or a similar one? It seems to suspend nicely, but on resume, I just get a blank screen and CPU fan at full speed. I've fiddled endlessly with the settings in the sleep file - no joy.
try with this kernel parameters you can test it during boot acpi_sleep=s3mode or acpi_sleep=s3bios or acpi_sleep=s3mode,s3bios i needed to put the later for succesfully suspend and restore from ram the same laptop but with a celeron processor HTH -- Un Saludo. Carlos Lorenzo Matés
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