Re: TOI and kernel 3.7-3.8 resume problem

Sorry, make that "echo disk > /sys/power/state"


On 18 March 2013 22:10, Pedro Ribeiro <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Federico,
>
> I'm currently using ToI with a kernel 3.7 and it has been rock solid. I
> have heard of some users having problems with 3.8... but I haven't tried
> that myself.
>
> Maybe it has something to do with your hardware? Do you use pm-utils? This
> package has a history of causing hibernation problems, at least to me. It
> is supposed to fix all kinds of power management problems, but has a lot of
> corner cases for legacy hardware which end up ruining hibernation and
> suspend for newer computers.
>
> If you do use pm-utils, try installing the hibernate script (also a
> sub-project of ToI). It takes some time to set up properly and a bit of
> nosing with the config files, but it gets the job done beautifully,
> especially when compared to pm-utils.
>
> A quick way to find out if pm-utils is messing with your system is to try
> hibernation via the command line. As root, do "echo /sys/power/state". Wait
> for it to hibernate, and then resume. If it works without a problem, then
> it's something to do with pm-utils or your configuration.
>
> Regards,
> Pedro
>
>
> On 18 March 2013 14:20, Federico Di Pierro <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Well, trying to debug it better.
>> I left an xfce4-terminal open, and after resume (while screen "seems"
>> off)  /sys/class/backlight/intel_backlight/brightness is not set to 0.
>>  By the way, i managed to workaround the problem with an easy bash
>> script, executed by systemd during resume. It only changes vt (chvt 2) and
>> revert to my tty1 (chvt 1). It now works, but i think it is not a very
>> clean method, so i'm looking to find a better solution.
>> Any tips?
>>
>>
>> 2013/3/11 Federico Di Pierro <[email protected]>
>>
>>> Hi!
>>> Since kernel 3.7 and 3.8, patched with toi, i 've been facing a strange
>>> issue while resuming: my netbook screen stays black, until i change tty,
>>> and return back to my "x" tty. Then everything works flawlessly.
>>> My graphic card is an integrated intel GMA 3150. The same problem is
>>> happening to my brother, his netbook has a intel GMA945.
>>> With kernel 3.6 (and prior), i never had any issue.
>>> I'm using archlinux.
>>>
>>> Another resume issue, that had always sticken our netbooks, is that
>>> resuming with an external sd card plugged in, it results in a kernel panic.
>>>
>>> Please, ask me for everything you need,I'll try to be as helpful as I
>>> can.
>>>
>>> Thanks for your great work
>>> Bye
>>>
>>
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