Suspend from menu fails; suspend from bios key works

[Mark Lord]

Binary package hint: acpi

Testing with 05-May-2006 Kubuntu.

Suspend-to-RAM from the laptop-battery-icon menu does not work. It runs the screen-locker, and does nothing else... until I later "logout", at which point it *then* tries to suspend, and kills the machine. This used to work with Breezy.

Suspend-to-RAM (and resume) actually works on the same machine if attempted via the appropriate "bios key" instead of via the menu.

Something must be funny in the scripts.. I'd expect the menu "suspend" to do similar actions to the "bios key" suspend..

Dell Inspiron 9300 w/ ATI X300 video.

Cheers

[Matthew Garrett (mjg59)]

Sounds like KDE is triggering things inappropriately

[Mark Lord (launchpad-rtr)]

I also tried running the script directly:

/etc/acpi/sleep.sh sleep

It suspended fine, but locked up solid on resume.

Cheers

[Luka Renko (lure)]

KLaptop issue is known: KLaptop crashes on Suspend to memory and causes that only lock screen happens. This part of report is duplicate of bug 32785. Since KLaptop issues is already tracked, I have changed package back to acpi-support.

If it locks on resume, it is probably issue of the kernel.
Are you sure it does lock up or is it just a blank screen issue (video is not restored on resume) as reported on several ATI cards (see bug 33827, bug 28959, bug 38615)

[Mark Lord (launchpad-rtr)]

Yes, it's dead. CPU fan goes into high gear (a rarity), alt-sysrq-s and alt-sysrq-b have no effect. 6-second press of power button required to kill the mess.

Again, kernel handles suspend/resume just fine when done from the "bios keyboard key" for suspend.

[Matti Viljanen (direc85)]

Have a look at bug #32785.

[Mark Lord (launchpad-rtr)]

Yes, the opening description above does match but #32785 , but the rest differs.

In this instance, suspend/resume actually *do* work on the machine, depending on the method used to invoke it.

Gotta love notebooks! ((but at least this one has a Centrino sonoma chipset)

Cheers

[Matthew Garrett (mjg59)]

This ought to be fixed now

[Mark Lord (launchpad-rtr)]

Not fixed as of 07-May-2006.

[Matthew Garrett (mjg59)]

It's in acpi-support 0.79. I've no idea why running the script directly causes different behaviour, but the menu should now work.