[Solved]Unable to suspend

Question

Hi i have this situation:
i can suspend in ubuntu 8.10 with fglrx and in fedora 11 with vesa driver
i can't suspend in anythyng that uses free ati driver, i tried arch with xorg 1.5 and 1.6 and free drivers, ubuntu 9.04, mandriva 2008.1
My conclusion is that the free xf86-vide-ati is the main problem.
The laptop suspends but when it resumes it stays black and i can't get in tty1 or use ctrl+alt+del, i had to force a reboot.
Is it posible to fix this?
I downgraded to xorg 1.5 but catalyst-old from AUR requiers kernel 2.6.29 so i have to downgrade the kernel too but this mean to build my own modules for virtualbox and other programs that use kernel modules.
It would be nice to find a better way.
Thx
my video card
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RC410 [Radeon Xpress 200M]
and i have a suspend log but not a resume log, in the suspend log i get a Suspend succesfull or something, no errors
I downgraded to kernel 2.6.29  and i installed catalys-old from AUR, i can suspend but i gel  under 300 FPS
Last edited by simion314 (2009-07-11 13:05:32)

Answer 1

djszapi wrote:
Did you follow these pages ?
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Suspend_to_Disk
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Suspend_to_RAM
Have you ever tried for it other drivers too? Is it a kernel panic in this case? can't alt+sysrq+ S/U/B too?
I tried the s2ram and it didn't know my machine, same result as normal resume it hangs. I read there that are more trikc to try but i do not have the time now(exams) to try those combination. I hoped that other Archers with ATI cards have had this problem and can point me in the right direction.