Official Standby/Hibernate Information Issues - Ubuntu 7.10

[Surgeon General]

Dell 1520

laptop fan just spins continuously. laptop don't resume.

[alvenegas]

I have a Dell Inspirion 8100 with nVidia GeForce 2 Go and after a fresh 7.10 install Suspend nor Hibernate worked. I went to some notes
I found when I dealt with this problem when I installed Dapper on the same machine some years ago. As soon as I did the fix on the machine it went back to work. Here is what I did:

On /etc/X11/xorg.conf file go to the "Device" Section and add an
"Option" of "NvAGP" "1"

On file /etc/default/acpi-support change to "false" the entry
POST VIDEO=true

Doing only these two things made Suspend work. Hope someone
finds it useful.

[staticsage]

Originally Posted by alvenegas I have a Dell Inspirion 8100 with nVidia GeForce 2 Go and after a fresh 7.10 install Suspend nor Hibernate worked. I went to some notes I found when I dealt with this problem when I installed Dapper on the same machine some years ago. As soon as I did the fix on the machine it went back to work. Here is what I did: On /etc/X11/xorg.conf file go to the "Device" Section and add an "Option" of "NvAGP" "1" On file /etc/default/acpi-support change to "false" the entry POST VIDEO=true Doing only these two things made Suspend work. Hope someone finds it useful.

Did you have to blacklist any modules? If not, do you see any errors in your messages or kern logs: "NVRM: not using NVAGP, an AGPGART backend is loaded!"?

I had to do the same two things, but the error basically says that the NvAGP option isn't doing anything. I thought it was just me, but it seems like this may also be your situation.

[61811]

Two out of three desktops upgraded (not a fresh install) from Feisty to Gutsy - both cannot Resume from Suspend. Upgrade was clean without errors.

System #1
Dell Dimension 4700
Pentium 4 2.8GHz
82915G Integrated Graphics Controller
- Suspends fine.
- Resumes - however, after entering the password, screen goes blank with lots of USB messages, and then computer powers off. Have to restart (cold boot).
- If Power Management is disabled, then Resume works fine after manually Suspending the machine.
- Feisty worked flawless for auto Suspend/Resume.

System #2
ECS Mobo AMD690GM-M2
AMD Athalon 64 X2 4600+
AMD 690G Northbridge (no add-on video card)
SB600 Southbridge
- Suspends fine
- Cannot Resume at all. Have to power cycle (cold boot).
- Cannot Resume from manual Suspend either.
- Feisty worked flawlessly - system would Resume after manual or auto Suspend.

Questions:
- Has a fix been found for the Power Management bug in Gutsy? If so, please point me to it.
- If not, how do I revert back to Feisty?

Thank you.

[DarqueWing]

I've tried upgrading to Gutsy, and I've tried fresh installs. I've tried every applicable fix suggested in this thread and elsewhere - some producing even more awful problems. I've devoted too much time to doing fresh installs, doing a fix that makes it look like it will work for a while, getting all my stuff reinstalled, and then having it start doing the same thing over again.

This little standby problem is officially a fatal flaw in Gutsy for me. I just lost half of an important meeting because I was trying to get my laptop to turn on instead of taking notes like everyone else. After a hard boot, it chose the worst possible time to require a disk scan. The guy using the Apple next to me had some choice words for how poor Ubuntu is. Hard to argue with him when I can't even get the thing out of standby without major problems. (It's sad when the guy on the Apple actually suggests that Windows would be an improvement.)

So I'll see you back at Feisty Fawn. While a lot of Gutsy's features are cool, and it would probably be a non-issue on a desktop computer, standby mode is necessary for a laptop that's used for work. It's a deal-breaker, and embarrassing considering how I've been telling everyone since I discovered Feisty how stable and superior Ubuntu is.

Hopefully this will be sorted out by the next release. I like Ubuntu too much to bear watching it cause this many problems.

[Dellfan]

A summary of tweaks to improve suspend/hibernate/resume on Gutsy - this works flawlessly on a 1505, with Nvidia graphics, Intel 3945 wireless, a current kernel (2.6.22-14-generic #1 SMP Sun Oct 14 23:05:12 GMT 2007 i686 GNU/Linux) running Gnome, for both suspend and hibernate

In /etc/acpi/suspend.d

create 20-i8042-input.sh:
#!/bin/sh
# Added to deal with keyboard freeze/lockup after suspend
# Unbind the AT keyboard interface.
if [ -f /sys/bus/platform/drivers/i8042/unbind ]; then
echo -n "i8042" > /sys/bus/platform/drivers/i8042/unbind
fi

in /etc/acpi/resume.d

create 40-i8042-input.sh:
#!/bin/sh
# Added to deal with keyboard lockup/freeze after resume
# Rebind the AT keyboard interface.
if [ -f /sys/bus/platform/drivers/i8042/bind ]; then
echo -n "i8042" > /sys/bus/platform/drivers/i8042/bind
fi

create 99-network-manager.sh:
#!/bin/sh
# Added to deal with NetworkManager getting confused on resume
/etc/dbus-1/event.d/25NetworkManager restart

if having issues with sound on resume create 99-restore-volume.sh:
#!/bin/sh
amixer sget Master | grep "Mono:" | while read m p v j
do
amixer sset Master 0
amixer sset Master $v
done

in /etc/default/acpi-support ensure that:
POST_VIDEO=false

in /etc/X11/xorg.conf, in the Section "Device" add the option:
Option "NvAGP"

Note: All files in suspend/resume directories, need to be owned by root and executable (ie sudo su, chown root filename, chgrp root filename,chmod 755 filename)

With this, I do not have to blacklist any modules.

[Aure]

Dell m1210
Clean install

doesn't sleep when closing lid, unresponsive after resuming from suspend when I click on suspend.

[cheechdurden]

Dell D800
Clean install

Will suspend from shutdown/suspend/logout menu, but is unresponsive when powered back on.

[hal69000]

Dell Inspiron 5150
512MB RAM
Pentium 4
Clean Install

Can't suspend, hibernate, closing the lid does nothing. It also freezes up completely on occasion, requiring a restart.

[tombeharrell]

Dell Inspiron XPS Gen 2, 2GB RAM, 100GB, Nvidia 6800 256MB

Upgraded from 7.04 through development versions of 7.10. A few kernels ago standby and hibernate both worked, but the last couple of updates (last month or so of betas) broke standby.

Hibernate works fine though, with or without Compiz running.