David wrote:
I am using an hp pavillion zv5000 with an AMD Athlon 64. I have the SuSE 64 10.0 installed on this laptop. I have not been able to get it to suspend to ram or disk. I have read three papers published in the open suse web site and tried the suggestions there. I have edited the boot options to add the S3 parameters. I have added shutdown in the sleep file. I have tried all the suggestions found in those papers. The results have not changed at all.
When I try to suspend to ram or disk a small window on the desktop opens and returns "preparing to suspend". It goes through the process and X11 goes down. This leaves me at a black screen with this appearing in the upper left corner. "Stopping tasks: _" . The system hangs there. It has done this since installed. None of the changes I have made have had any effect on this outcome.
I really would like suspend to work on my laptop. Can anyone give me a clue?
David
There is a web site dealing with the zv5000 series and its twin brother (identical inside), the Presario R3000 series. This issue has been repeatedly discussed there (as late as two weeks or so ago). I would suggest that you visit that web site. Its URL is http://lists.pcxperience.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxr3000 Generally, there were issues with the earlier nVidia drivers preventing successful resume. The newest nVidia driver, 1.0-8756, purports to have resolved these issues. You may also need to patch the kernel as described in http://suspend.sourceforge.net/. Just about any laptop can go into suspend, but resuming is where trouble starts because many ACPI implementations are broken. I have managed to do suspend to disk and resume successfully with SuSE's kernel of the day 2.6.16, dated April 8, 2006 (with the nVidia drivers loaded) by issuing, as root, 'echo disk > /sys/power/state' ('mem' instead of 'disk' will initiate suspend to RAM). I cannot resume successfully with a newer kernel of the day. I have recompiled the DSDT tables, as per SuSE's manual, but it made no difference (see my relevant posting on the R3000 board). Regards, Gus Fantanas -- Running 64-bit Linux on AMD64