Resume from suspend shows black screen and must reboot: on HP dv5000, AMD-64, ATI Radeon XPRESS 200M

[Erik]

I have an HP Pavilion dv5000 laptop with a 64-bit AMD processor and a Radeon XPRESS 200M video card. Whenever I suspend the machine, and go to wake it up, the 'quick key' lights come on and i hear the drive spinning, but the screen remains off (black). I had this problem with the past couple versions of Ubuntu (versions before that worked fine).

Running Ubuntu 10.04... just installed. Thanks for any help!

[Christopher (soft-kristal)]

This bug is affecting my 10.10 installation but not 10.04, although it was affecting the early alphas of Lucid.

I can replicate the problem by pressing Fn+F4, which is the suspend command on my laptop.

[Christopher (soft-kristal)]

...adding my pm-suspend log.

[Jesse Glick (jesse-glick)]

I have a similar-sounding problem on a dv5000 running Lucid with all updates. Fn-F5 works fine to suspend; but then pressing the power button starts the fan and turns on some lights but the screen remains black and the laptop seems insensitive to any input. At the suggestion of various pages found by Google, I tried passing nomodeset, radeon.modeset=0, or i915.powersave=0 to the kernel from GRUB, without success.

Possibly related: bug #560837; bug #492392; bug #434956.

[Jesse Glick (jesse-glick)]

acpi=oldboot and noacpi do not work either. Upgrading the BIOS from F.42 to F.54 (in XP, using HP's recommended WinFlash tool) did not help.

[madbiologist (me-again)]

This looks like it has recently been fixed upstream in kernel 2.6.35-rc6. From the changelog:

commit 52fa2bbc8ec46255039e2048d616bbd0852ee292
Author: Alex Deucher
Date: Wed Jul 21 23:54:35 2010 -0400

    drm/radeon/kms: add quirk to make HP DV5000 laptop resume

    Fixes:
    https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29062

    Reported-by: Andres Cimmarusti
    Signed-off-by: Alex Deucher
    Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie

A PPA of this kernel is available at http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/

[Jesse Glick (jesse-glick)]

Booting the suggested linux-image-2.6.35-020635rc6-generic_2.6.35-020635rc6_i386.deb does not solve the problem in my case, unfortunately.

[madbiologist (me-again)]

@ Jesse - sorry to hear it didn't work for you.

In case it helps anyone else, the patch I mentioned in comment #5 is in the 2.6.32-33.68 kernel currently in Lucid-proposed.

[Brad Figg (brad-figg)]

This bug is missing log files that will aid in dianosing the problem. From a terminal window please run:

apport-collect 590510

and then change the status of the bug back to 'New'.

If, due to the nature of the issue you have encountered, you are unable to run this command, please add a comment stating that fact and change the bug status to 'Confirmed'.

This change has been made by an automated script, maintained by the Ubuntu Kernel Team.