ATI/AMD Driver Installed | Suspend Fails | Suggestions?

[neu5eeCh]

And... on to the next problem.

Having successfully installed and tweaked video driver and video playback performance, I find that Suspend no longer works. I'm going to start googling now, but any suggestions are welcome.

Xubuntu 12.04 | Mobility Radeon HD 3650 |64bit | Sony VAIO VGN-FW373J

[neu5eeCh]

Yeah. OK. Cold shoulder, eh? I get the message. ;) I filed a bug report here (https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1019862).

[Toz]

Hi VTPoet. What does /var/log/pm-suspend say? Also, run the following command to see if there is anything related in syslog:

cat /var/log/syslog* | grep PM:

On a long shot (mostly because its worked on other Sny vaios), have you/can you try: http://thecodecentral.com/2011/01/18/fix-ubuntu-10-10-suspendhibernate-not-working-bug?

[neu5eeCh]

Hi VTPoet. What does /var/log/pm-suspend say? Also, run the following command to see if there is anything related in syslog:

cat /var/log/syslog* | grep PM:On a long shot (mostly because its worked on other Sny vaios), have you/can you try: http://thecodecentral.com/2011/01/18/fix-ubuntu-10-10-suspendhibernate-not-working-bug?

Hi Toz, I just saw your response. I ran your command in terminal, but the output goes on a bit. How do a post this stuff without using up the whole page? I notice that some here post clickable extracts.

Edit: I tried the link you provided, but unfortunately it didn't work on my system.

[Toz]

Hi Toz, I just saw your response. I ran your command in terminal, but the output goes on a bit. How do a post this stuff without using up the whole page? I notice that some here post clickable extracts.
Try:

pastebinit /var/log/pm-suspend
...and post back the link that gets generated.


Edit: I tried the link you provided, but unfortunately it didn't work on my system.

Here it is in a nutshell:
1. Create a file:

gksudo leafpad /etc/pm/sleep.d/20_custom-ehci_hcd

2. Copy/Paste the following code to the file:


#!/bin/sh
#inspired by http://art.ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=9744970&postcount=19
#...and http://thecodecentral.com/2011/01/18/fix-ubuntu-10-10-suspendhibernate-not-working-bug
# tidied by tqzzaa :)

VERSION=1.1
DEV_LIST=/tmp/usb-dev-list
DRIVERS_DIR=/sys/bus/pci/drivers
DRIVERS="ehci xhci" # ehci_hcd, xhci_hcd
HEX="[[:xdigit:]]"
MAX_BIND_ATTEMPTS=2
BIND_WAIT=0.1

unbindDev() {
echo -n > $DEV_LIST 2>/dev/null
for driver in $DRIVERS; do
DDIR=$DRIVERS_DIR/${driver}_hcd
for dev in `ls $DDIR 2>/dev/null | egrep "^$HEX+:$HEX+:$HEX"`; do
echo -n "$dev" > $DDIR/unbind
echo "$driver $dev" >> $DEV_LIST
done
done
}

bindDev() {
if [ -s $DEV_LIST ]; then
while read driver dev; do
DDIR=$DRIVERS_DIR/${driver}_hcd
while [ $((MAX_BIND_ATTEMPTS)) -gt 0 ]; do
echo -n "$dev" > $DDIR/bind
if [ ! -L "$DDIR/$dev" ]; then
sleep $BIND_WAIT
else
break
fi
MAX_BIND_ATTEMPTS=$((MAX_BIND_ATTEMPTS-1))
done
done < $DEV_LIST
fi
rm $DEV_LIST 2>/dev/null
}

case "$1" in
hibernate|suspend) unbindDev;;
resume|thaw) bindDev;;
esac

3. Save the file.

4. Make the file executable:


sudo chmod 755 /etc/pm/sleep.d/20_custom-ehci_hcd

5. Try suspend again.

This code unloads specific usb modules prior to suspend (and reloads them on resume) that can be problematic on some systems that have suspend issues.

[neu5eeCh]

Thanks again. I tried the script but, in my case, it didn't help.

My impression is that this problem is directly related to the video drivers.

I also tried the pastebinit command but the terminal responded that it was "Unable to read from: /var/log/pm-suspend"

[Toz]

oops, my bad. It should be:

pastebinit /var/log/pm-suspend.log

Lets see if there's anything in the log file. If not, we can go deeper down the rabbit hole and get more debugging info.

[neu5eeCh]

oops, my bad. It should be:

pastebinit /var/log/pm-suspend.logLets see if there's anything in the log file. If not, we can go deeper down the rabbit hole and get more debugging info.

Oh... that's kewel! Never done this before. The link to the log is here (http://paste.ubuntu.com/1072238/).

[Toz]

Ok, nothing there. Let's go deeper.


sudo bash
mv /var/log/pm-suspend.log /var/log/pm-suspend.log.BAK
export PM_DEBUG=true
pm-suspend


After you recover, post back the link to your /var/log/pm-suspend.log file (it will be considerably larger).

EDIT: Had a look at your bug report (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1019862/comments/27). When you run 'dmesg > dmesg.txt', it will create a dmesg.txt file. Post that one back as well (and attach to bug report). There might be some useful info in there.

[neu5eeCh]

OK. I'll do that tomorrow. I'm burned out for tonight. I had installed the upstream kernel. When I received the installation error message (vis-a-vis the upstream kernel), I assumed I couldn't use it. Silly me. I rebooted and didn't realize I was running it because I didn't pay attention to grub. The upstream kernel deactivated my FGLRX install. Had to uninstall the upstream kernels and reinstall AMD's drivers. What a mess - but my own doing.

[neu5eeCh]

Solved!

The solution can be found at Xubuntugeek:

http://xubuntugeek.blogspot.com/2012/11/solved-suspend-causes-reboot-on-sony.html

Fix

Edit (with root permissions) the line GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX on the file /etc/default/grub, adding the option acpi_sleep=nonvs.

https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-u9O0PA57OTs/UKKySqA7RBI/AAAAAAAADDU/V9weunve6ZY/s500/vaio-suspend.png

Then sudo update-grub2