Asus N53JF Suspend problem

alfiomosca · March 19, 2011, 9:19pm

I have opensuse 11.4 on my notebook, but there is a little problem whit s2ram, it doesn’ work!! I see the console and variuos messages, and the system hangs. Pm-suspend.log reports:

“/usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/50rcnetwork suspend suspend: success.
Running hook /usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/55NetworkManager suspend suspend:
Having NetworkManager put all interaces to sleep…Failed.
…
INFO: using built-in quirks database from HAL.
INFO: S2RAM_OPTS from HAL quirks: ’ --vbe_post --vbe_save --vbe_mode’.
Allocated buffer at 0x11000 (base is 0x0)”

I unload the xhci-hcd module before suspending. I stopped network service too, but nothing…
With opensuse 11.3 and kernel updated no problem.
Thanks, alfonso

swerdna · March 19, 2011, 10:18pm

I had a failure to suspend until I upgraded my nouveau drivers to the proprietory drivers
Doesn’t look like your problem but I thought I’d mention is since the Asus n53jf has Nvidia in the specs

alfiomosca · March 20, 2011, 9:29am

I can try to unload nouveau module. There isn’t support for optimus technology I can use only the Intel video card

swerdna · March 20, 2011, 11:46am

Just add the community repository for the proprietary drivers (Yast – Software → Software Repos → Add → Community Repos → NVIDIA Repo). After the "add’ go to yast → Software → Software Management ---- and you shoulkd see that the upgrade is all chosen for you – so let it proceed.

If you don’t like the nVidia proprietary drivers compared to “nouveau” you simply uninstall the proprietary drivers.

As I said, this might not solve the suspend problem that you have, but you get to try out nVidia’s drivers which I found to be very, very much better than nouveau quite apart from anything to do with the “suspend to ram” function.

alfiomosca · March 20, 2011, 3:20pm

I have just installed the nvidia drivers from repository, but the system uses only the intel integrated card. I tried to start googleearth to test 3D, and I have error. I can’t switch between nvidia and intel graphics. Thanks for your help

swerdna · March 20, 2011, 9:26pm

but the system uses only the intel integrated card

The Asus n53jf uses “NVIDIA® GeForce® GT 425M with 1GB DDR3 VRAM” does it not? How does “intel integrated card” get into the act? What do you get returned from this command:

/usr/sbin/hwinfo --gfxcard

alfiomosca · March 20, 2011, 9:57pm

linux-mxhn:~ # /usr/sbin/hwinfo --gfxcard
10: PCI 02.0: 0300 VGA compatible controller (VGA)
[Created at pci.318]
Unique ID: _Znp.D52X8RniOe7
SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.0
SysFS BusID: 0000:00:02.0
Hardware Class: graphics card
Model: “Intel Arrandale Integrated Graphics Controller”
Vendor: pci 0x8086 “Intel Corporation”
Device: pci 0x0046 “Arrandale Integrated Graphics Controller”
SubVendor: pci 0x1043 “ASUSTeK Computer Inc.”
SubDevice: pci 0x1532
Revision: 0x18
Driver: “i915”
Driver Modules: “drm”
Memory Range: 0xd3400000-0xd37fffff (rw,non-prefetchable)
Memory Range: 0xb0000000-0xbfffffff (ro,non-prefetchable)
I/O Ports: 0xe080-0xe087 (rw)
IRQ: 48 (149318 events)
Module Alias: “pci:v00008086d00000046sv00001043sd00001532bc03sc00i00”
Driver Info #0:
Driver Status: i915 is active
Driver Activation Cmd: “modprobe i915”
Config Status: cfg=no, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown

24: PCI 100.0: 0300 VGA compatible controller (VGA)
[Created at pci.318]
Unique ID: VCu0.Tr9sqF1K9+9
Parent ID: vSkL.KSCge1Y6zaB
SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0/0000:01:00.0
SysFS BusID: 0000:01:00.0
Hardware Class: graphics card
Model: “nVidia VGA compatible controller”
Vendor: pci 0x10de “nVidia Corporation”
Device: pci 0x0df0
SubVendor: pci 0x1043 “ASUSTeK Computer Inc.”
SubDevice: pci 0x1532
Revision: 0xa1
Driver: “nouveau”
Driver Modules: “drm”
Memory Range: 0xd2000000-0xd2ffffff (rw,non-prefetchable)
Memory Range: 0xc0000000-0xcfffffff (ro,non-prefetchable)
Memory Range: 0xd0000000-0xd1ffffff (ro,non-prefetchable)
I/O Ports: 0xd000-0xdfff (rw)
Memory Range: 0xd3000000-0xd307ffff (ro,non-prefetchable,disabled)
IRQ: 16 (284 events)
Module Alias: “pci:v000010DEd00000DF0sv00001043sd00001532bc03sc00i00”
Driver Info #0:
Driver Status: nvidiafb is not active
Driver Activation Cmd: “modprobe nvidiafb”
Driver Info #1:
Driver Status: nouveau is active
Driver Activation Cmd: “modprobe nouveau”
Config Status: cfg=no, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown
Attached to: #9 (PCI bridge)

Primary display adapter: #10

swerdna · March 20, 2011, 10:17pm

I see, two VGA cards, Intel and nVidia. I suggest you go into the BIOS and switch to nVidia? Of course, you might wish to stick with the Intel on board VGA which is entirely up to you. If you switch to nVidia, it seems you don’t have the nVidia drivers installed (maybe, hmmm, undecided) because “nouveau” is showing. The command “rpm -qa | grep nvidia” will tell you whether they did install.

So you have a decision to make between nVidia and Intel.

alfiomosca · March 20, 2011, 10:27pm

My bios version doesn’t provide any switch possibility :’(
I can decide between intel, and intel

swerdna · March 20, 2011, 10:39pm

Maybe you need to address in a separate/dedicated thread in the hardware forum the issue of why your nVidia card has been sidelined and how to get it working. The specs for this computer on the Asus site defo state that it has nVidia and there’s no mention of Intel graphics there.

I presume you can dual boot into your windows installation; does windows show nVidia in Control Panel → System → Device manager → Display Adapters?