suspend on a desktop in 11.4

English Install/Boot/Login
1

Suspend “appears” to be working for me but not quite:

  1. the screen says “done” (3 lines of text) appear
  2. the screen never shuts down, nor does the “done” messages disappear
  3. it returns from suspend by both keyboard activity and the power button
  4. the pc doesn’t go silent, some fans or something still making sound
  5. the pc power light blinks indicating suspension

Actually the pc doesn’t really suspend as not only do fans run but the optical drives open and appear to read (based on blinking lights)

Any one seeing this?

In 11.3 suspending seemed to actually suspend and hitting the power seemed to bring it out of sleep but the monitor never came back on (indicator light displayed off color) so the suspend functionality was useless

2

I just tried suspend to RAM on my GM version of 11.4, and it wouldn’t wake up. I had to hard reboot to get it back. So I’ll be watching the answers that you get with interest.

3

Did the pc wake up but not the monitor - 'cause that’s what happened to me in 11.3. I also had to hard reboot to get back, though it had suspended

maybe move to non-beta forum after the actual release as the beta forum probably won’t be getting much traffic.

as, an aside - should the concept of beta/pre-release be adjusted for the instance where the repo has been populated but the gm hasn’t been released. Just seems that something like this, if kept in beta forum, though a final (release) issue might get ignored going forward.

4

Hibernate and sleep both work perfectly on my desktop (ASUS M4A785TD mobo, 11.4 RC2.1).

5

Yes, the computer resumed but not the video. I tried the “suspend to disk” also. That gave the same result as the “suspend to RAM”, the computer woke up but not the video, and I had to hard reboot to get it back, and then I had to choose failsafe to untangle the video and get it back.

I’m thinking it might have to do with the “nouveau” video driver that automatically installs for Nvidia cards. *

What driver do you have (run the command “/usr/sbin/hwinfo --gfxcard” to find out)?

If you prefer, I’ll move it now for you, to get proper exposure?*

6

I’m running the proprietary drivers (the 270 series, I bleed edge), self compiled on a 9500gt card

Hibernation (suspend to disk) works fine, it pretty much always has

I think the motherboard might also matter, my earlier mb worked fine (it suspended) in 11.2 (?), but when I replaced it suspend stopped working

Moving it so it’s not buried would be good - thanks,

7

Hi,

Have you tried disabling splash screen ? Add

splash = n

to /etc/suspend.conf to disable the splash screen during suspend.

Did you try to run the command in a terminal to see if it works ?

Is the hibernation works ?

8

Made the suspend.conf change and no difference (but did find the thread option so thanks for that)

no difference or errors when run from command line:
powersave -u
method return sender=:1.12 -> dest=:1.1226 reply_serial=2

For me hibernate works fine but not for swerdna (see post above suspend on a desktop in 11.4)

9

I have the same problem as you two : hibernate works perfectly but suspend do resume, I can tell it, but I can’t see it. It looks like something went wrong on the graphical side…

10

did it work in 11.3 and what’s you gpu driver?

11

It doesn’t work on 11.3 and 11.4. I have a GeForce 9600 GT.

12

For me it’s a video problem. I can operate the “sleep” icon and it suspends to ram in the way I’m familiar with from my laptop running openSUSE 11.3 (we’re talking here about a Desktop running openSUSE 11.4). When I bring the Desktop out of sleep, it makes appropriate noises, disk activity etc, but the screen stays black. I can run the login sequence blind, open a command line with “alt + F2”, use that to open a Konsole, su to root, and run the command “reboot”. So the box wakes up and operates OK, just the video stays off.

13

I concur, I have the exact same symptoms as you swerdna. You have a nvidia gc ? So, it is a driver problem or the x server that doesn’t do his job…:question:

14

hwinfo tells me I have this card: “nVidia G98 [GeForce 8400 GS]” and this driver arrangement:

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
15

HI,

some motherboard BIOSes do have an option to “(re)post video on resume”.

Do yours have that and if so, does toggling that make any differece?

HTH

Lenwolf

16

Not in mine unfortunately. I wonder if there’s a facility to run a script on resume from sleep.

17

Hi swerdna,

I have a GeForce 9600 GT with nvidia driver activated (not nouveau like you).

I’ll have to check this option in my BIOS.

18

Yes; put the script in etc/pm/sleep.d or in /usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d (I can’t remember which).

General structure of the script :

#!/bin/bash
case $1 in
    hibernate)
        # instructions before HIBERNATION
        ;;
    suspend)
        # instructions before SUSPEND
        ;;
    thaw)
        # instructions after suspend
        ;;
    resume)
        # Instructions after hibernation
        ;;
    *) 
        ;;
esac

HTH

Lenwolf

19

there is a script there calledd 99at

#!/bin/bash

. $PM_UTILS_LIBDIR/functions

case "$1" in
        hibernate|suspend)
                        stopservice atd
                ;;
        thaw|resume)
                        restartservice atd
                ;;
        *)
                ;;
esac

exit 0
20

Ok I can put commands in the file and they seem to execute. But I can’t figure out what to put there to fix the problem.