hibernate and suspend

[elevar]

hello forum! hope you enjoy my first thread ;-)

on my desktop pc with the following specs, i cannot use hibernate or suspend
asus a7v600-x
amd athlon xp 2400+
nvidia geforce 7600 with driver from livna
2 gb ram
fedora 8

here some more information

[robin@nutshell ~]$ /sbin/lsmod 
Module                  Size  Used by
aes                    31489  1 
rfcomm                 36825  0 
l2cap                  25537  9 rfcomm
autofs4                20421  2 
it87                   19789  0 
hwmon_vid               6593  1 it87
hwmon                   6469  1 it87
sunrpc                140765  1 
nf_conntrack_ipv4      11717  3 
ipt_REJECT              7617  2 
iptable_filter          6465  1 
ip_tables              14213  1 iptable_filter
nf_conntrack_ipv6      18769  3 
xt_state                6081  6 
nf_conntrack           51849  3 nf_conntrack_ipv4,nf_conntrack_ipv6,xt_state
nfnetlink               8281  3 nf_conntrack_ipv4,nf_conntrack_ipv6,nf_conntrack
xt_tcpudp               6977  10 
ip6t_ipv6header         6209  2 
ip6t_REJECT             8257  2 
ip6table_filter         6337  1 
ip6_tables             15109  2 ip6t_ipv6header,ip6table_filter
x_tables               14277  7 ipt_REJECT,ip_tables,xt_state,xt_tcpudp,ip6t_ipv6header,ip6t_REJECT,ip6_tables
vfat                   13249  1 
fat                    45277  1 vfat
fuse                   38485  2 
loop                   16581  0 
dm_multipath           18249  0 
ipv6                  245989  24 nf_conntrack_ipv6,ip6t_REJECT
snd_via82xx_modem      14409  0 
snd_seq_dummy           6725  0 
arc4                    5953  2 
ecb                     6721  2 
dst                    28617  1 
blkcipher               9029  1 ecb
snd_via82xx            25177  4 
snd_ice1712            55861  1 
snd_ice17xx_ak4xxx      7105  1 snd_ice1712
snd_seq_oss            29889  0 
snd_ak4xxx_adda        11073  2 snd_ice1712,snd_ice17xx_ak4xxx
snd_seq_midi_event      9793  1 snd_seq_oss
snd_seq                44849  5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
dvb_bt8xx              17221  0 
snd_cs8427             10817  1 snd_ice1712
rt61pci                24641  0 
snd_ac97_codec         92389  3 snd_via82xx_modem,snd_via82xx,snd_ice1712
dvb_core               69481  2 dst,dvb_bt8xx
rt2x00pci              11201  1 rt61pci
snd_usb_audio          75329  1 
rt2x00lib              20929  2 rt61pci,rt2x00pci
parport_pc             26981  0 
snd_pcm_oss            37569  0 
bt878                  12665  2 dst,dvb_bt8xx
snd_mixer_oss          16705  3 snd_pcm_oss
parport                32393  1 parport_pc
ac97_bus                6081  1 snd_ac97_codec
ns558                   8001  0 
rfkill                  9297  1 rt2x00lib
snd_i2c                 8385  2 snd_ice1712,snd_cs8427
bttv                  159797  2 dvb_bt8xx,bt878
gspca                 663888  0 
video_buf              22469  1 bttv
snd_usb_lib            17345  1 snd_usb_audio
snd_mpu401             11241  0 
nvidia               7850240  34 
snd_pcm                63685  6 snd_via82xx_modem,snd_via82xx,snd_ice1712,snd_ac97_codec,snd_usb_audio,snd_pcm_oss
snd_hwdep              10309  1 snd_usb_audio
gameport               14665  3 snd_via82xx,ns558
floppy                 53125  0 
input_polldev           7369  1 rt2x00lib
serio_raw               9029  0 
ir_common              33477  1 bttv
hci_usb                16605  2 
snd_mpu401_uart        10177  3 snd_via82xx,snd_ice1712,snd_mpu401
bluetooth              49317  7 rfcomm,l2cap,hci_usb
crc_itu_t               6081  1 rt2x00lib
compat_ioctl32          5313  1 bttv
snd_rawmidi            21185  2 snd_usb_lib,snd_mpu401_uart
pcspkr                  6593  0 
i2c_algo_bit            9157  1 bttv
via_rhine              23753  0 
i2c_viapro             11093  0 
snd_timer              20549  2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
mac80211              115789  2 rt2x00pci,rt2x00lib
mii                     8385  1 via_rhine
btcx_risc               7881  1 bttv
snd_seq_device         10061  4 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_rawmidi
button                 10448  0 
snd_page_alloc         11337  3 snd_via82xx_modem,snd_via82xx,snd_pcm
snd                    43461  27 snd_via82xx_modem,snd_via82xx,snd_ice1712,snd_seq_oss,snd_ak4xxx_adda,snd_seq,snd_cs8427,snd_ac97_codec,snd_usb_audio,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_i2c,snd_mpu401,snd_pcm,snd_hwdep,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_rawmidi,snd_timer,snd_seq_device
tveeprom               17617  1 bttv
i2c_core               21825  7 dst,dvb_bt8xx,bttv,nvidia,i2c_algo_bit,i2c_viapro,tveeprom
videodev               28097  2 bttv,gspca
cfg80211               10953  1 mac80211
v4l2_common            18625  2 bttv,videodev
soundcore               9633  3 snd
v4l1_compat            15941  2 bttv,videodev
eeprom_93cx6            6081  1 rt61pci
joydev                 11649  0 
sg                     31965  0 
sr_mod                 17509  0 
cdrom                  33889  1 sr_mod
usb_storage            73217  0 
sata_via               12101  0 
dm_snapshot            17765  0 
dm_zero                 5825  0 
dm_mirror              21569  0 
dm_mod                 46209  9 dm_multipath,dm_snapshot,dm_zero,dm_mirror
pata_via               12229  4 
ata_generic             8901  0 
libata                100145  3 sata_via,pata_via,ata_generic
sd_mod                 27329  5 
scsi_mod              119757  5 sg,sr_mod,usb_storage,libata,sd_mod
ext3                  110665  2 
jbd                    52457  1 ext3
mbcache                10177  1 ext3
uhci_hcd               23633  0 
ohci_hcd               21445  0 
ehci_hcd               31821  0

it appears that none of the button, fan, processor etc. modules are loaded. im not sure wheather they are neccessary for non-laptop computers. are they? acpid is running and not showing any errors.

an interesting line from my dmesg is this one

[robin@nutshell ~]$ dmesg | grep power
powernow-k8: Processor cpuid 681 not supported

strange its trying to load that one since my cpu is a k7 model i suppose.
i do net get any errors in dmesg concerning acpi (in fact, i get no errors).

it is not the problem that i cant boot after hibernatemode but that i cannot enter hibernate. i even dont get the message "suspending consoles" on my screen. it just hangs after shutting down the graphics.

i cannot tell whether the suspendmode is initiated properly, but i cant wake the machine up afterwards (i pressed all buttons i could find being wired with my computer in any way to wake it).

some questions: do i need the acpi_cpufreq module (which i cant load, "...no such device...")?
is it possible i dont have enough swap?
is some component of my hardware causing the problem?
is there anybody out there with my board an cpu and hibernate working?

hope u got some advice,

elevar

[RJFUatHOME]

You might want to take a look at this page for sime hints at troubleshooting your problem.

http://people.freedesktop.org/~hughs...end-index.html

[dumm_newbie]

The same problem - Fedora 9 - but I really had to laugh at the proposed solution: If you do not know what quirk you need to use, or the quirk does not work with your system, please open a terminal as root, and then experiment just trying pm-suspend with different options. You guys are funny

[knowtown]

Sounds like I am in a similar boat. I am running F8 on a Dell x300. Everything on this computer seems to be working perfectly with the exception of suspend and hibernate.

I went to the quirk site and downloaded and ran the script and get the message:

$ ./quirk-checker.sh
Checking your system...

Suspend should work!

However, if I suspend or hibernate the computer goes through the process of powering down. The problems occur when I try to resume. In both cases the power comes on, the hd light starts to blink, the cursor shows up with the blue circling ring, then I get a screen that is various shades of green with only outlines of all the windows displayed as solid green blocks on the screen. I can actually click on the boxes to change active windows or move windows around but cannot see anything because there is only green boxes. I can guess which window is the shell (or open a new terminal window with ctrl+alt+F1) and successfully reboot the computer and all is well but cannot resume from suspend or hibernate.

I have tried most of the quirks and get the same results every time with the exception of --quirk-s3-bios which will not even get that far--only get a fast blinking light on my power button and a click sound.

Nothing out of the norm (at least as far as I can tell) in dmesg or /var/log/pm-suspend.log. Not sure what other logs to look at or what to try.

my video info from lspci:
VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device (rev 02)
Display controller: Intel Corporation 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device (rev 02)

I will be more than happy to post more info if someone can hit me with a clue of what other logs/files contain the important info related to this. If I can get hibernate/suspend to work on this laptop it will be close to perfect (for an old beater, anyway).

Thanks!

[Peacepunk]

I am sorry/happy tho report the method & link to be valid & of great interest, I now suspend to Ram when the lid is closed, mac-like, excellent.

Don't forget you must try _combinations_ of arguments, on my Sony Vaio vgn-t17gp I needed dpms-on and vbe-post, as opposed to the script that proposed vbemode-restore & vbe-post.

Cheers community.