ffi Posted January 20, 2008 Report Share Posted January 20, 2008 i have an acer aspire 9100 with an ati mobility radeon x600, both with fglrx and ati drivers after suspending to ram the screen stays black, i can hear the computer waking up though edit:keyboard input doesn't seem to work either [moved from Hardware by spinynorman] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted January 20, 2008 Report Share Posted January 20, 2008 Which kernel do you have installed (you should run the laptop-kernel)? Are there any pointers in /var/log/messages or ~/.xsession-errors? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ffi Posted January 21, 2008 Author Report Share Posted January 21, 2008 nothing which seems relevant in those logs and i am using the laptop kernel :( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted January 21, 2008 Report Share Posted January 21, 2008 I would check if it hangs again if you disable the 3D stuff. That might help to narrow down the problem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ffi Posted February 12, 2008 Author Report Share Posted February 12, 2008 I didnt even use the 3d stuff, fglx was installed but I used the xorg driver and even then the laptop hangs waking up... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Batson Posted February 13, 2008 Report Share Posted February 13, 2008 I don't know if the following thread I created will be any help to you or not, but I do have a ATI Mobility Radeon 9600 in my T42. I finally got suspend to RAM to work after some effort. I found the following general article most helpful: How to suspend and hibernate a laptop under Linux Here is my howto thread for a T42 ThinkPad: Enabling Hardware hotkeys on a ThinkPad T42 [i know you have an Acer, which is different.] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ffi Posted March 24, 2008 Author Report Share Posted March 24, 2008 thanks i might have some to look at it now Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coverup Posted March 25, 2008 Report Share Posted March 25, 2008 (edited) thanks i might have some to look at it now I had a similar problem with Thinkpad T61. I fixed it by adding <match key="system.hardware.version" string="ThinkPad T61"> <merge key="power_management.quirk.s3_bios" type="bool">true</merge> </match> to the file /usr/share/hal/fdi/information/10freedesktop/20-video-quirk-pm-lenovo.fdi. There is a similar file for acer in that directory. You might want to look at it. Also, I added acpi_slip=s3_bios to the kernel boot options (via Mandriva Control Centre). See this reference. Edited March 25, 2008 by coverup Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ffi Posted April 2, 2008 Author Report Share Posted April 2, 2008 suspend-to-ram and disk work out of the box in 2008.1 spring, no fiddling required :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coverup Posted April 2, 2008 Report Share Posted April 2, 2008 suspend-to-ram and disk work out of the box in 2008.1 spring, no fiddling required :) Did they manage to speed up suspend/resume? In 2008, it takes 5 times longer than in Windows. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ffi Posted April 2, 2008 Author Report Share Posted April 2, 2008 suspending to disk takes a while, resuming is a bit faster than a regular boot (to kdm) suspending and resuming to ram is okay Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted April 2, 2008 Report Share Posted April 2, 2008 My wife's Acer does it in Windows! I think it's an Acer thing. Sometimes it wakes up, and sometimes it doesn't. When it doesn't, you can see it's fully powered up, you can hear the fan cooling the processor, etc, but the screen doesn't wake up - even with banging the keyboard! Although, initially pressing a key did something, but nothing more to get the screen active. Even if the screen is shut, you can here the fan going every now and then cooling the machine down. Obviously something not working right on Acer laptops. If I remember correctly, she has a TravelMate 2350 or something like that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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