[SONY VAIO VPCS12L9E] Suspend doesn't work after dist-upgrade to Quantal 12.10

[Salvatore Cristofaro]

Using a Sony VAIO VPCS12L9E notebook, I just upgraded from Kubuntu 12.04 to Kubuntu 12.10 (amd64), and suspend is not working anymore . When I select suspend from the Kde menu, suspend doesn't work:
- the screen goes black, but does not turn off
- num Lock works,
- caps Lock doesn't work
- notebook is on, and doesn't enter suspend mode.
In this state, i can only press power button (hard power off) or reboot with Stamp + Alt + B.

In Kubuntu 12.04 suspend work.

As describe in https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingKernelSuspend, i entered the following commands:
sudo sh -c "sync; echo 1 > /sys/power/pm_trace; pm-suspend"

Ubuntu kernel version bisect revealed regression going from 3.4.0-5.11 to 3.5.0-1.1.

WORKAROUND: http://shiba89.wordpress.com/2012/10/25/ubuntu-12-10-linux-3-5-e-sony-laptop/ code:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:shiba89/vaio-kernel
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install linux-headers-generic sony-laptop-dkms

It use the 3.4 kernel module with Absence Patches: http://www.absence.it/vaio-acpi/source/patches/

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ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
AudioDevicesInUse:
 USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
 /dev/snd/controlC1: salvatore 3569 F.... pulseaudio
 /dev/snd/controlC0: salvatore 3569 F.... pulseaudio
CRDA:
 country IT:
  (2402 - 2482 @ 40), (N/A, 20)
  (5170 - 5250 @ 40), (N/A, 20)
  (5250 - 5330 @ 40), (N/A, 20), DFS
  (5490 - 5710 @ 40), (N/A, 27), DFS
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
HibernationDevice: RESUME=UUID=9d5b51a9-6a1e-413b-92cb-68a9688d9362
InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release amd64 (20111012)
MachineType: Sony Corporation VPCS12L9E
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: linux (not installed)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=it_IT.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcFB: 0 VESA VGA
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.5.0-17-generic root=UUID=1d0259e9-9edf-47f3-92c7-e0fe185d9da5 ro vga=792 splash quiet crashkernel=384M-2G:64M,2G-:128M quiet splash acpi_backlight=vendor acpi_sleep=nonvs vt.handoff=7
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-17.28-generic 3.5.5
RelatedPackageVersions:
 linux-restricted-modules-3.5.0-17-generic N/A
 linux-backports-modules-3.5.0-17-generic N/A
 linux-firmware 1.95
Tags: quantal
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-17-generic x86_64
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to quantal on 2012-10-19 (5 days ago)
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare vboxusers
dmi.bios.date: 09/30/2010
dmi.bios.vendor: INSYDE
dmi.bios.version: R1160Q3
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dmi.board.vendor: Sony Corporation
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dmi.chassis.version: N/A
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dmi.product.name: VPCS12L9E
dmi.product.version: C104H6ZD
dmi.sys.vendor: Sony Corporation

[Joseph Salisbury (jsalisbury)]

Would it be possible for you to test the latest upstream kernel? Refer to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelMainlineBuilds . Please test the latest v3.7 kernel[0] (Not a kernel in the daily directory) and install both the linux-image and linux-image-extra .deb packages.

Once you've tested the upstream kernel, please remove the 'needs-upstream-testing' tag. Please only remove that one tag and leave the other tags. This can be done by clicking on the yellow pencil icon next to the tag located at the bottom of the bug description and deleting the 'needs-upstream-testing' text.

If this bug is fixed in the mainline kernel, please add the following tag 'kernel-fixed-upstream'.

If the mainline kernel does not fix this bug, please add the tag: 'kernel-bug-exists-upstream'.

If you are unable to test the mainline kernel, for example it will not boot, please add the tag: 'kernel-unable-to-test-upstream'.
Once testing of the upstream kernel is complete, please mark this bug as "Confirmed".

Thanks in advance.

[0] http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v3.7-rc2-raring/

[Salvatore Cristofaro (cristofaro)]

I tested with the indicated latest v3.7 kernel but problem persist (see log)

[penalvch (penalvch)]

Maurs, thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Please execute the following command, as it will automatically gather debugging information, in a terminal:
apport-collect BUGNUMBER
When reporting bugs in the future please use apport by using 'ubuntu-bug' and the name of the package affected. You can learn more about this functionality at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ReportingBugs.

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[penalvch (penalvch)]

Maurs, thank you for the apport-collect. Regarding the following kernel parameters you are using:
acpi_backlight=vendor acpi_sleep=nonvs

could you please remove both of these kernel parameters and provide the information following https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingKernelSuspend ? As well, could you please discuss why specifically you are passing these kernel parameters? Being presumptuous, acpi_backlight=vendor is for a backlight issue, and acpi_sleep=nonvs so suspend would work in Precise?

Thank you for your understanding.

[Salvatore Cristofaro (cristofaro)]

Hi, thank you for your fast reply.

I tried to remove both kernel parameters (acpi_backlight=vendor and acpi_sleep=nonvs) but problem persist. (see attached file).

In 12.04 (and in 11.10) I used a patched sony-laptop.ko module (please refer to http://www.absence.it/vaio-acpi/source/patches/ and http://code.google.com/p/vaio-f11-linux/issues/detail?id=6 ). It improved the management of energy savings through better driver support for backlight and environment light sensor with my Vaio. I believe that I introduced the kernel parameter acpi_backlight=vendor after applying this patch or, however, to improve support to brightness.
Just for your knowledge, after upgraded to 12.10, I could not apply this patch to current kernel (was incompatible with 3.5: patching result in a reject file).

The acpi_sleep=nonvs kernel parameter was not present when i used12.04.
I introduced it during last days after reading this post http://<email address hidden>/msg36825.html and other similar forum discussion, trying to fix the suspend feature, without success.

Thank you for support
Salvatore

[Salvatore Cristofaro (cristofaro)]

I come back to 3.2.0-32-generic #51 kernel (patched with vaio-full-3.2.2.patch, see link above).
Suspend work great. May be useful to attach some log files?

Thanks,
Salvatore

[penalvch (penalvch)]

Maurs, regarding your comments https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1069707/comments/28 :
>"I come back to 3.2.0-32-generic #51 kernel (patched with vaio-full-3.2.2.patch, see link above).
Suspend work great."

With 3.2.0-32-generic #51, if you remove the vaio-full-3.2.2.patch, and both kernel parameters:
acpi_backlight=vendor
acpi_sleep=nonvs

is suspend successful? If not, which combination of the above specifically allowed suspend to work and which did not?

[Salvatore Cristofaro (cristofaro)]

I tried both configuration:

- Linux svaio-kubuntu 3.2.0-32-generic #51-Ubuntu x86_64 with vaio-full-3.2.2.patch: it works. (without both acpi_backlight=vendor and acpi_sleep=nonvs)
- Linux svaio-kubuntu 3.2.0-32-generic #51-Ubuntu x86_64 (without patch): it works too. (without both acpi_backlight=vendor and acpi_sleep=nonvs)

So, the problem persist only with 3.5...

Thank you,
Salvatore

[penalvch (penalvch)]

Maurs, thank you for providing the requested information. Continuing to not patch, or use acpi_backlight=vendor and acpi_sleep=nonvs, the next step is to perform a Ubuntu kernel bisect from 3.2.0-32 to 3.5.0-17.28, in order to identify the last good Ubuntu kernel version, followed immediately by the first bad one. As per https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/quantal/+source/linux we have:
3.2.0-24.37
3.4.0-1.1
3.4.0-1.2
3.4.0-1.3
3.4.0-2.4
3.4.0-2.5
3.4.0-2.6
3.4.0-3.7
3.4.0-3.8
3.4.0-4.9
3.4.0-4.10
3.4.0-5.11
3.5.0-1.1
3.5.0-2.2
3.5.0-3.3
3.5.0-4.4
3.5.0-5.5
3.5.0-6.6
3.5.0-7.7
3.5.0-8.8
3.5.0-9.9
3.5.0-10.10
3.5.0-11.11
3.5.0-12.12
3.5.0-13.13
3.5.0-13.14
3.5.0-14.15
3.5.0-14.16
3.5.0-14.17
3.5.0-14.18
3.5.0-14.19
3.5.0-15.20
3.5.0-15.21
3.5.0-15.22
3.5.0-15.23
3.5.0-16.24
3.5.0-16.25
3.5.0-17.26
3.5.0-17.27
3.5.0-17.28

Hence, could you please test 3.5.0-8.8 via https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/3.5.0-8.8/+build/3702770 ?

Once this test is complete, could you please continue to bisect following https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/KernelBisection ?

Thank you for your understanding.

Helpful bug reporting tips:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs

[senya (senya)]

I've got the same problem. pm-suspend is ok on 3.2.0-32-generic, but breaks on Linux 3.5.0-18-generic.
I'll try to make some tests too.
Here is my dmesg for broken pm-suspend.

[penalvch (penalvch)]

fenixk19, if you have a bug in Ubuntu, could you please file a new report by executing the following in a terminal:
ubuntu-bug linux

For more on this, please see the Ubuntu Bug Control and Ubuntu Bug Squad article:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/BestPractices#X.2BAC8-Reporting.Focus_on_One_Issue

and Ubuntu Community article:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs#Bug_reporting_etiquette

When opening up the new report, please feel free to subscribe me to it.

Please note, not filing a new report may delay your problem being addressed as quickly as possible.

Thank you for your understanding.

[senya (senya)]

Created https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1073749

[Salvatore Cristofaro (cristofaro)]

Hello,

The problem come with 3.5.x kernel. I tested 3.4.0-5.11 kernel and (some) before and all work great.
From 3.5.0-1.1 kernel, the problem persist.
The major difference could be see in this dmesg extract: there's a kernel OOPS...

Kernel =>3.5.0-1.1 dmesg:

--- CUT ---

[...]
[ 35.333632] lp: driver loaded but no devices found
[ 35.571221] wmi: Mapper loaded
[ 35.576770] ACPI Warning: 0x0000000000000460-0x000000000000047f SystemIO conflicts with Region \PMIO 1 (20120320/utaddress-251)
[ 35.576774] ACPI: If an ACPI driver is available for this device, you should use it instead of the native driver
[ 35.576775] lpc_ich: Resource conflict(s) found affecting iTCO_wdt
[ 35.576782] ACPI Warning: 0x0000000000000428-0x000000000000042f SystemIO conflicts with Region \PMIO 1 (20120320/utaddress-251)
[ 35.576788] ACPI Warning: 0x0000000000000428-0x000000000000042f SystemIO conflicts with Region \_SB_.PCI0.IEIT.SGPE 2 (20120320/utaddress-251)
[ 35.576789] ACPI: If an ACPI driver is available for this device, you should use it instead of the native driver
[ 35.576796] ACPI Warning: 0x0000000000000500-0x000000000000057f SystemIO conflicts with Region \GPIO 1 (20120320/utaddress-251)
[ 35.576798] ACPI: If an ACPI driver is available for this device, you should use it instead of the native driver
[ 35.576799] lpc_ich: Resource conflict(s) found affecting gpio_ich
[ 35.649026] sony_laptop: Sony Notebook Control Driver v0.6
[ 35.751202] microcode: CPU0 sig=0x20652, pf=0x10, revision=0xc
[ 35.755192] evbug: Connected device: input0 (Power Button at PNP0C0C/button/input0)
[ 35.755197] evbug: Connected device: input1 (Lid Switch at PNP0C0D/button/input0)
[ 35.755199] evbug: Connected device: input2 (Power Button at LNXPWRBN/button/input0)
[ 35.755202] evbug: Connected device: input3 (AT Translated Set 2 keyboard at isa0060/serio0/input0)
[ 35.790263] BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at 0000000000ff1000
[ 35.790313] IP: [<ffffffff8132a77d>] memcpy+0xd/0x110
[ 35.790340] PGD 1290a7067 PUD 107c9b067 PMD 0
[ 35.790360] Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP
[ 35.790376] CPU 3
[ 35.790394] Modules linked in: evbug microcode(+) sony_laptop(+) mac_hid lpc_ich wmi lp parport vesafb video firewire_ohci firewire_core atl1c sdhci_pci sdhci crc_itu_t
[ 35.790460]
[ 35.790470] Pid: 628, comm: modprobe Not tainted 3.5.0-1-generic #1-Ubuntu Sony Corporation VPCS12L9E/VAIO
[ 35.790516] RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff8132a77d>] [<ffffffff8132a77d>] memcpy+0xd/0x110
[ 35.790547] RSP: 0000:ffff880107d45c50 EFLAGS: 00010246
[ 35.790570] RAX: ffff880107d45ca0 RBX: ffff8801290245e0 RCX: 0000000000000001
[ 35.790600] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000ff1000 RDI: ffff880107d45ca0
[ 35.790630] RBP: ffff880107d45c68 R08: ffff880107c26e00 R09: 0000000180400019
[ 35.790660] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: ffffffff813a1ae9 R12: ffff880107d45ca0
[ 35.790689] R13: ffff880107d45cbf R14: ffff88012c9b0400 R15: 0000000000000135
[ 35.790720] FS: 00007fdd03db6700(0000) GS:ffff880137cc0000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[ 35.790754] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b
[ 35.790778] CR2: 0000000000ff1000 CR3: 0000000107c15000...

[penalvch (penalvch)]

Maurs, thank you for bisecting Ubuntu kernel versions. The next step is commit bisecting Ubuntu kernel versions from 3.4.0-5.11 to 3.5.0-1.1. Could you please do this following https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/KernelBisection#Commit_bisecting_Ubuntu_kernel_versions ?

Thank you for your understanding.

[Salvatore Cristofaro (cristofaro)]

I can't find either debian and debian.master:

[...]
#git log --oneline Ubuntu-3.4.0-5.11..Ubuntu-3.5.0-1.1
(see attached file)

#git bisect start Ubuntu-3.5.0-1.1 Ubuntu-3.4.0-5.11
Previous HEAD position was 76e10d1... Linux 3.4
Switched to branch 'mybisect'
Bisecting: a merge base must be tested
[76e10d158efb6d4516018846f60c2ab5501900bc] Linux 3.4

As written in the wiki, could be a "across non-linear tags" problem. How to resolve it?

Thanks,
Salvatore

[Rafael Torres (rdtorres)]

Hi,

I'm facing the exactly same problem with Fedora 16 dist. After an update from kernel 3.4.9-2 to 3.6.2-1 this issue started to happen. Basically my ACPI module is not loaded. so my laptop cannot suspend either.

My logs from kernel 3.6.2-1 :

[ 28.649495] BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at 0000000000ff1000
[ 28.649503] IP: [<ffffffff812e1c0d>] memcpy+0xd/0x110
[ 28.649515] PGD 12fd62067 PUD 12da5c067 PMD 0
[ 28.649522] Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP
[ 28.649526] Modules linked in: sony_laptop(+) atl1c iTCO_wdt iTCO_vendor_support intel_ips soundcore snd_page_alloc i2c_i801 microcode rfkill joydev i2c_core lpc_ich mfd_core uinput sunrpc binfmt_misc mmc_block mxm_wmi crc32c_intel ghash_clmulni_intel sdhci_pci sdhci mmc_core firewire_ohci firewire_core crc_itu_t video wmi
[ 28.649555] CPU 2
[ 28.649559] Pid: 706, comm: modprobe Not tainted 3.6.2-1.fc16.x86_64 #1 Sony Corporation VPCS12V9E/VAIO
[ 28.649560] RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff812e1c0d>] [<ffffffff812e1c0d>] memcpy+0xd/0x110
[ 28.649563] RSP: 0018:ffff88012ea65c30 EFLAGS: 00010246
[ 28.649564] RAX: ffff88012ea65c60 RBX: ffff88012ca377c0 RCX: 0000000000000001
[ 28.649565] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000ff1000 RDI: ffff88012ea65c60
[ 28.649566] RBP: ffff88012ea65c48 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 0000000000000000
[ 28.649567] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff88012ea65c60
[ 28.649568] R13: ffff88012ffb8010 R14: ffff88013199a800 R15: 0000000000000100
[ 28.649569] FS: 00007f9da2756700(0000) GS:ffff880137c80000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[ 28.649571] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[ 28.649572] CR2: 0000000000ff1000 CR3: 000000012d454000 CR4: 00000000000007e0
[ 28.649573] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
[ 28.649574] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
[ 28.649575] Process modprobe (pid: 706, threadinfo ffff88012ea64000, task ffff88013023c560)
[ 28.649576] Stack:
[ 28.649577] ffffffffa0138553 ffff88013199a800 0000000000000135 ffff88012ea65ca8
[ 28.649579] ffffffffa013861f 0000000000000009 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
[ 28.649581] 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 000000008a133f54 ffff88012ea65c98
[ 28.649583] Call Trace:
[ 28.649590] [<ffffffffa0138553>] ? sony_nc_buffer_call.constprop.11+0x43/0xa0 [sony_laptop]
[ 28.649593] [<ffffffffa013861f>] sony_nc_rfkill_setup+0x6f/0x1b0 [sony_laptop]
[ 28.649597] [<ffffffffa013a9ab>] sony_nc_function_setup+0x2ab/0x920 [sony_laptop]
[ 28.649600] [<ffffffffa013b21b>] sony_nc_add+0x1fb/0x650 [sony_laptop]
[ 28.649605] [<ffffffff812005ed>] ? sysfs_do_create_link+0xed/0x220
[ 28.649610] [<ffffffff81335f08>] acpi_device_probe+0x4e/0x11c
[ 28.649614] [<ffffffff813bd161>] driver_probe_device+0x91/0x3b0
[ 28.649616] [<ffffffff813bd52b>] __driver_attach+0xab/0xb0
[ 28.649618] [<ffffffff813bd480>] ? driver_probe_device+0x3b0/0x3b0
[ 28.649621] [<ffffffff813bb356>] bus_for_each_dev+0x56/0x90
[ 28.649623] [<ffffffff813bcbee>] driver_attach+0x1e/0x20
[ 28.649625] [<ffffffff813bc6f0>] bus_add_driver+0x1a0/0x2c0
[ 28.649627] [<ffffffffa014c000>] ? 0xffffffffa014bff...

[penalvch (penalvch)]

Rafael Torres, if you are having a problem with Fedora, please report this to their bug tracker.

Thank you for your understanding.

[Rafael Torres (rdtorres)]

Hi Christopher,

I already reported there. I'm here just tring to narrow down this issue to a possible common denominator between two distros. Sorry if I caused any problem. I'm just tring to help.

Thanks

[Damian Beltrami (damian-beltrami-id)]

I have a Sony VPCS137GG. Suspend worked perfectly with 12.04 and prior distributions (although each new distribution upgrade usually broke suspend before a fix was found).

I have installed a clean 12.10 system and suspend is broken (from the menu or laptop lid close). The only solution is to force a power down.

[penalvch (penalvch)]

Damian Beltrami, if you have a bug in Ubuntu, could you please file a new report by executing the following in a terminal:
ubuntu-bug linux

For more on this, please see the Ubuntu Bug Control and Ubuntu Bug Squad article:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/BestPractices#X.2BAC8-Reporting.Focus_on_One_Issue

and Ubuntu Community article:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs#Bug_reporting_etiquette

When opening up the new report, please feel free to subscribe me to it.

Please note, not filing a new report may delay your problem being addressed as quickly as possible.

Thank you for your understanding.

[Salvatore Cristofaro (cristofaro)]

Hi Cristopher,

can you help me to continue kernel bisect, pls? I believe you miss my last post. if not, I apologize in advance.

[penalvch (penalvch)]

Maurs, thank you for your efforts in bisecting. Regarding your comments https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1069707/comments/43 :
>"can you help me to continue kernel bisect, pls? I believe you miss my last post. if not, I apologize in advance."

I did see your last post, and I beg your pardon on not replying to it sooner. It does seem you have fell into the pitfall of non-linear tag bisecting as noted in https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/KernelBisection#Commit_bisecting_Ubuntu_kernel_versions_across_non-linear_tags .

A discussion on testing around non-linear tags, for a different bug report but same problem, has been occurring at https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/kernel-team/2012-November/022632.html .

I'm working on distilling this information into the bisect article. However, until then, you are welcome to seek further bisect support from the Ubuntu Kernel team via https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelTeam#Communications .

I'll mark this bug Confirmed in the mean time.

Thank you for your understanding.

[Damian Beltrami (damian-beltrami-id)]

Thanks Christopher, i have filed a new report and subscribed you as requested.

[Salvatore Cristofaro (cristofaro)]

Hello,

Here a temporany workaround to make suspend work on Ubuntu 12.10 using 3.5 family kernel:

http://shiba89.wordpress.com/2012/10/25/ubuntu-12-10-linux-3-5-e-sony-laptop/

Code:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:shiba89/vaio-kernel
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install linux-headers-generic sony-laptop-dkms

It use the 3.4 kernel module with Absence Patches: http://www.absence.it/vaio-acpi/source/patches/

[Damian Beltrami (damian-beltrami-id)]

Thanks Salvatore - you are a life saver!
All is working well. Hopefully the kernel is patched properly shortly.

[Salvatore Cristofaro (cristofaro)]

You are welcome Damian. I opened a bug on the acpi kernel mailing list:
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=50111

You could post there...

P.S. To use environment sensor for automatic screen & keyboard brightness, you can use sony-acpid deamon
http://code.google.com/p/vaio-f11-linux/wiki/AutoDimmingBacklightDaemon (sorry for OT)

[Shiba (shiba89)]

I'm sorry I saw this report only now, I'm the writer of the blog linked at #34 and I already reported the bug upstream:
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=48671
There's a patch linked, but it has not been merged yet (don't know how this things work).

The problem with my PPA is that it only works with kernel 3.5, as of 3.6 the module fails to build. Waiting for the patch to be merged upstream, or patching stock sony-laptop.c in the PPA for raring without Absence patches.

[Shiba (shiba89)]

This is the patch which fixes this issue. Many, many thanks to Mattia Dongili.

[Damian Beltrami (damian-beltrami-id)]

The temporary workaround that Salvatore supplied does not appear to be working any longer.

Fabrizio, how do you apply the patch?

[Helio Loureiro (helioloureiro)]

Hi,

I applied it a few day ago (7 to be exact), and it worked accordingly here. My laptop is a Vaio VPC-S110GB and I'm running a 3.5.0-21-lowlatency kernel.

[Damian Beltrami (damian-beltrami-id)]

Hi Helio,
Could you help me out specifically with how to apply the patch?
Thanks,
Damian.

[Helio Loureiro (helioloureiro)]

Hi,

I just followed these steps:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:shiba89/vaio-kernel
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install linux-headers-generic sony-laptop-dkms

Perhaps you need to have DKMS environment working properly. Is your DKMS compiling properly? You need to run:

sudo apt-get install dkms

as well...

[Damian Beltrami (damian-beltrami-id)]

not working for me anymore.

[penalvch (penalvch)]

Salvatore Cristofaro, could you please test http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v3.8-rc4-raring/ ?

[Salvatore Cristofaro (cristofaro)]

Hello,

I tested http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v3.8-rc4-raring/ kernel. It doesn't freeze anymore but suspend doesn't work: my laptop didn't enter in suspend mode, but only show me unblock session dialog window (as it was just resumed from suspend).

Regards,
Salvatore

[penalvch (penalvch)]

Salvatore Cristofaro, thank you for testing mainline kernel v3.8-rc4. Could you please test http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v3.8-rc5-raring/ ?

[Salvatore Cristofaro (cristofaro)]

This patch resolve the problem for me, as I wrote here:

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=50111

[Julian Wiedmann (jwiedmann)]

Salvatore,
the referenced patch landed in quantal-updates with 3.5.0-24.36. Please test and close this bug if it's fixed.

[Salvatore Cristofaro (cristofaro)]

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From: Bug 1069707 [mailto:<email address hidden>]
Sent: Friday, May 05, 2017 1:35 PM
To: <email address hidden>
Subject: "common" lol

The mindset that everyone has is "everyone on the road is bad except *me*. If all these other idiots just learned how to drive/bike/walk/scoot/skip, then there would be no problems! Everyone else goes too fast or too slow! No passing in the driving lane! No driving in the fast lane! No fasting in the lane pass!"

It's a miracle that anyone manages to get anywhere at all.

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From: Bug 1069707 [mailto:<email address hidden>]
Sent: Friday, June 23, 2017 2:19 AM
To: <email address hidden>
Subject: dont call me guy, pal.

When I was 13, he had to do a presentation in front of the class, which included choosing a song and explaining why it could be related to your life. Most people picked songs that talked about a specific trait, I can't remember any particular ones, but basically it was like "I'm a funny person" or "I'm a happy person" and the like. But no, not me.

I was going through my emo stage, as I'm sure many of us did, and decided to find a way to portray myself in a way that talked about how upset I was with my life and the world. So I chose Behind Blue Eyes by The Who.

So I get up to do the presentation, play a bit of the song and explain in front of the whole class and teacher about how my life sucks and nobody likes me and basically that I don't deserve to live. Then my teacher says "oh Tyler we don't feel that way about you" and then I burst into tears still standing in front of the class.

As if that's not bad enough, my teacher is worried about me (rightfully so) and she calls my parents and then I have to not only live it, but then explain what happened to my parents. I can't think about it without cringing.

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From: Bug 1069707 [mailto:<email address hidden>]
Sent: Monday, June 26, 2017 3:54 PM
To: <email address hidden>
Subject: Recognize you

#3:30am Sunday, May 3rd
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From: Bug 1069707 [mailto:<email address hidden>]
Sent: Friday, August 04, 2017 2:36 PM
To: <email address hidden>
Subject: UNO!!!

Thanks, friend. :)

Yes, my husband (ISTJ) is awesome. We've really stretched each other, but there are just some things he'll alwYs be uncomfortable with (and me too, just vice versa), so although we have similar values and respect, we usually have different ideas of fun. ??

When you lived closer to/in a major city, where did you meet these intuitive and fun girls? School? Work? Public events?

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From: Bug 1069707 [mailto:<email address hidden>]
Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2017 2:26 PM
To: <email address hidden>
Subject: What what, in the...

By the time you turn 21, that money will be gone. Grandparents still around? They started it, they can take people off of it or should be able to, hopefully. Your parents have just shown that they can't be trusted with money. It's too tempting and they fell to the temptation. Shopping for a new car? Yep. That money is GONE if they have access to it for even one more day.

You need to demand, under threat of something, that you be shown this and that mom/dad need to come clean. Even if it affects your relationship. They have already done the damage, caused the problem and you are the effect. You are over 18 I assume from the boot camp statement, so you are an adult, even if you cannot access the money yet, you can certainly do other methods of control. Like hiring a lawyer to threaten your parents to give details.

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From: Bug 1069707 [mailto:<email address hidden>]
Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2017 11:44 PM
To: <email address hidden>
Subject: Human isnt a gender.

That's what I mean. I would rather players come to the table with pre made characters so we could get to playing. The other part is I'm not interested in playing with a group of players who would fudge rolls, nor am I interested in policing players. If a player is going to cheat, it will out eventually. Me preventing stat cheating up front isn't going to do anything to prevent that.

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From: Bug 1069707 [mailto:<email address hidden>]
Sent: Friday, September 15, 2017 12:23 PM
To: <email address hidden>
Subject: Thanks brother :)

Rabia obviously has zero obligation to have empathy for Jay, but I find this dismissal and mockery of Jay's feelings of distress at being approached by the Serial team, and being discussed by redditors, to be so insensitive given that she herself has expressed discomfort with the way that Sarah interviewed her and reported on the trial at times, as well as having peaced out of reddit because it was so toxic to her.

It all just makes me sad. I feel like there's such a giant gaping hole, vaccuum or something, where there's no room for empathy or humanity swirling around this whole podcast at this point. I should probably just get off of reddit.

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From: Bug 1069707 [mailto:<email address hidden>]
Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2017 11:29 AM
To: <email address hidden>
Subject: thanks :P

Alright.

The pivot is perfect, just make the default page to the highest possible in the hierarchy (so if I'm browsing an artist, first page - top 5 tracks, then albums, like on Spotify, then separate page, all songs, then next page, artist info).

The UI bug is indeed on the first run (intro) page, I am using a 920.

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