Suspend/hibernate problems - Kernel? ATI Radeon X300

[DanielSenat]

Hi,

I use Xubuntu, natty. My problem is that hibernate/suspend does not work. I can suspend, but can't get out of it. The screen is just black. I can't hibernate at all. I have followed the following guide to get more swap:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SwapFaq

It didn't help but the computer feels a lot quicker now.

http://pastebin.com/KVZYksSs

Once or twice the screen have turned black with white text on. I think it's when the screensaver turns on. The only solution from here is to turn of the computer pressing the on/off button.

My question is if there is a kernel that is particular stable for my hardware. I can't change back to my old kernel as I autoremoved it after a kernel update. For the moment I have 2.6.38-11-generic, it's ok, but suspend/hibernate..

Could it be the graphic card that is causing the problems? ATI Technologies Inc M22 [Mobility Radeon X300] Is there a better kernel for that?

/Daniel

[Toz]

Swap is only required for hibernate. Suspend stays in memory.

Is there anything in /var/log/pm-suspend.log?

Also, running the following command may yield some diagnostic info:

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

EDIT:
My bad. Try instead:

cat /var/log/syslog | grep PM:

[DanielSenat]

Swap is only required for hibernate. Suspend stays in memory.

Is there anything in /var/log/pm-suspend.log?

Also, running the following command may yield some diagnostic info:

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

EDIT:
My bad. Try instead:

cat /var/log/syslog | grep PM:

http://pastebin.com/QatV5bUV

http://pastebin.com/gr0CJnYh

And there where also a "pm-suspend.log.1" :

http://pastebin.com/59BWS0YK

Thank's!

[Toz]

Is your notebook a Toshiba M40X?

Can you also post results of:

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

...right after you attempt a suspend and recover.

[DanielSenat]

Is your notebook a Toshiba M40X?

Can you also post results of:

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

...right after you attempt a suspend and recover.

http://pastebin.com/KLAifcfn

Yes my computer is Satellite MX40-185 Still working!

[2F4U]

Did you already try to add nomodeset to the grub kernel parameters? I got suspend/hibernate working with this parameter on an old machine with ATI card.

[DanielSenat]

Did you already try to add nomodeset to the grub kernel parameters? I got suspend/hibernate working with this parameter on an old machine with ATI card.

No I havn't, how do I do that?

[DanielSenat]

Did you already try to add nomodeset to the grub kernel parameters? I got suspend/hibernate working with this parameter on an old machine with ATI card.

Is this what you mean? http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1613132 And what option should i try?

[Toz]

Yes. Try it temporarily by following the section titled "How to temporarily set kernel boot options on an installed OS (not wubi)" The parameter is nomodeset (be careful of the spelling, the spelling in the screenshot is incorrect).

[DanielSenat]

Yes. Try it temporarily by following the section titled "How to temporarily set kernel boot options on an installed OS (not wubi)" The parameter is nomodeset (be careful of the spelling, the spelling in the screenshot is incorrect).

I will be careful! "To set kernel boot options, you must edit your grub configuration. You can do this temporarily for a single boot by entering the grub menu. If you do not get to see the grub boot menu after the bios automatically, you may have to press SHIFT key after the bios logo to get in to grub:" How to enter the grup menu? When boot my computer i can chose F12 or F2 to setup but thats not what I need. And pressing shift does nothing.


From another site: "When Ubuntu boots, you normally briefly see a screen that says “GRUB loading. please wait… Press Esc to enter the menu…”" I don't have the screen Grub Loading! I use Xubuntu