Sleep not working on SuSe 13.1

On both of my machines, sleep doesn’t work. My desktop goes to sleep but never wakes properly and does a clean boot. My laptop never goes to sleep but the screen goes black and fans goes to 100%. THe laptop also seems to heat up so I think its doing something hefty too but I’m not sure.

Not sure how to troubleshoot this, Debian never had this (but had other problems :P).

Thanks.

hey there,

I am also having the same issue, even after enabling this setting in the power settings. Quite annoying!

On 2014-04-02 18:26, AnarKist wrote:
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> On both of my machines, sleep doesn’t work. My desktop goes to sleep but
> never wakes properly and does a clean boot. My laptop never goes to
> sleep but the screen goes black and fans goes to 100%. THe laptop also
> seems to heat up so I think its doing something hefty too but I’m not
> sure.

If by sleep you mean “suspend to ram”, it often does not work right on
desktop machines – it makes little sense there, IMHO.

For instance, on an old desktop I have, on suspend from Windows the CPU
fan went off, but the CPU itself remained running and heated up a lot,
almost burning to the touch. I later found out that this was a known bug
of my motherboard.

The most common think I have seen with suspend on desktops is that they
don’t wake up properly. Hibernation (to disk), on the other hand, seems
to be quite more reliable.

> Not sure how to troubleshoot this, Debian never had this (but had other
> problems :P).

You could try installing the laptop-mode-tools, and using the command
line to suspend or hibernate, for testing (pm-hibernate and pm-suspend).
(pm-[tab][tab] will give you some other possibilities).


Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 13.1 x86_64 “Bottle” at Telcontar)