suspend not working as reported in macbook aluminum wiki

[Ed K]

I experience a hang as described in the macbook community documentation (https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MacBook ) using both the PPA gnome-power-manager and the default gnome-power-manager in intrepid. The MacBook aluminum wiki entry (https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MacBook%20Aluminum), however, suggests that this should work "out of the box".

[Ed K (ekohlwey)]

oh, and if it wasn't clear I'm using new (late 08) macbook aluminum.

[Ricky Campbell (cyberdork33)]

Please make sure that you determine and report your Mac version appropriately. The information needed to do this is here:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MactelSupportTeam/CommunityHelpPages
You should have the "Macbook5,1"

Looking at the bottom of the wiki page for your hardware, it states, "The system hangs sometimes while booting/shutting-down. Comment: Using the nvidia driver 177.80 on the MacBook Pro Aluminum, the system rarely hangs during the shutdown process."
I would assume this applies to suspend as well.

[Ed K (ekohlwey)]

indeed the version is MacBook5,1

After reinstalling ubuntu due to some partition issues (thus using the original intrepid g-p-m) I have no suspend issues.

As you mentioned there's a separate but perhaps related issue with shutdown. I've found that the notebook always "hangs" on shutdown... if you can call it a hang. Ubuntu shuts down, and then the machine starts souding the terminal buzzer.

Strangely, Ubuntu is able to shut the system down with no problems when hibernating. Thus far, I've had no hibernate issues.