After I wake up my laptop from suspend to ram, my laptop speakers don’t work. The headphone, however, does. When I do a “rcalsasound restart” the laptop speakers work again. This issue resembles https://bugs.launchpad.net/linux/+bug/151111 very much, although this issue could not be solved with “rcalsasound restart”, so I think the unerlying cause could be completely different.
But what’s worse than the sound not coming back completely is that my CPU frequency gets stuck at 800MHz, which is the powermanagement state for my system, even when its power cord is plugged in and it should be able to go to 1.7GHz. I’ve tested this with starting up openoffice and monitoring the CPU frequency, but it consistently stays at 800MHz making my system feel sluggish.
My laptop is an HP nx8220 system (Pentium M mobile, ATI Mobility Radeon X600, Intel 8x0 sound).
Has anyone had similar issues with S2RAM or could anyone lead me to a solution for this?
In case you have not tried, you might try to surf on your model laptop, to see what others have tried. For example an older openSUSE user: SUSE Linux on a HP NX8220 Notebook
Powersave / PowerManagement
Install packages powersave, yast2-power-management, yast2-powertweak e.g. via YaST (Software Management)
The PowerManagement should work, if the acpi=on boot option gets enabled (see above) and the boot option vga=0x317 is changed to vga=0.
Note: The later results in a non-graphical boot screen.
The PowerManagement can be configured via YaST and via KDE tools.
“Suspend to RAM” and “Suspend to Disk” are working flawless out-of-the-box.
You may have tried that already, and it may not be applicable to your openSUSE, but it was not possible for me reading your post to determine if you had tried that.
I don’t speak German, but often one if one is not a German speaker, one can survive if one puts the URL into babel fish, and try to make sense of the computer translation that way.
Hi Oldcpu, thanks for the links. With regards to the first link, the package yast2-power-management, yast2-powertweak are no longer available for openSuse 11.0 (my version). The VGA=0 option I’m already using otherwise my ATI x600 card prevents the system from going into standby to begin with.
The second link I’ll keep as a last resort, I don’t really want to re-install the system at this point, since other than suspend it works flawlessly.
The last link won’t load at this time, I’ll try later on.
This guy start with patching his 2.6.16 kernel, so he must be on a really old version of openSuse. I don’t know which of his steps would apply to version 11.0. What’s interesting though is that he has a file “/etc/hibernate/ram.conf” in which he adds the line
services
RestartServices alsasound
Now that is exactly what I have to do manually. This file however no longer seems to exist. Do you know where I can do this in openSuse 11.0?
Hi, I’ll update the table as soon as I’ve got everything working. That’s not 100% the case yet: After the wake-up from S2RAM the sound works properly now, but kmix and amarok have to be restarted manually. Also, the power-related problem I have I managed to trace back to kpowersave. If I restart that manually also then everything works fine.
So, since all my remaining problems have to do with KDE, is there a way to let KDE know how to handle a wake-up from S2RAM?