Re: [gentoo-user] Suspend/Hibernate on Dell Inspiron 6000
What I did to solve this was to emerge the newest ati-drivers, which as of today is 8.455.2-r1. I also installed radeontool and vbetool. I made the changes in my common.conf and also in my ram.conf in /etc/hibernate to enable vbetool and radeontool. If you need these files, I'll gladly post them up. Could you please post those files? I haven't had any luck so far even with 8.455.2-r1 drivers. Thanks in advance. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Suspend/Hibernate on Dell Inspiron 6000
Here's my /etc/hibernate/ram.conf and common.conf http://www.nabble.com/file/p15841943/common.conf common.conf http://www.nabble.com/file/p15841943/ram.conf ram.conf Yahya Mohammad-2 wrote: Could you please post those files? I haven't had any luck so far even with 8.455.2-r1 drivers. Thanks in advance. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Suspend-Hibernate-on-Dell-Inspiron-6000-tp15666510p15841943.html Sent from the gentoo-user mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Suspend/Hibernate on Dell Inspiron 6000
Hey, I actually had the same problem as the original poster. I have the Dell Inspiron 6000 as well. I had the ati 8.40.4 driver and I recently upgraded my kernel from linux-2.6.21-suspend2-r7 to various versions of linux-2.6.23-tuxonice sources just to try to get it to suspend to ram properly. Suspend to ram would suspend, but would fail to resume within Gnome. There seems to be a problem with the ati 8.40.4 drivers with the newest linux-2.6.23 and .24 tuxonice-sources, because I have tried almost every single combination to try to get suspend to ram working correctly. What I did to solve this was to emerge the newest ati-drivers, which as of today is 8.455.2-r1. I also installed radeontool and vbetool. I made the changes in my common.conf and also in my ram.conf in /etc/hibernate to enable vbetool and radeontool. If you need these files, I'll gladly post them up. With the linux-2.6.21-suspend2-r7 kernel, I did not have to use any of those tools to help me resume but with the linux-2.6.23-tuxonice-sources I did. I'm currently running linux-2.6.23-tuxonice-r10. Iain Buchanan wrote: On Wed, 2008-02-27 at 12:30 +0400, Yahya Mohammad wrote: As you can tell, I'm stabbing in the dark! If you ultimately get nowhere, then the suspend2 users list has excellent help from some of the devs. I'll check that list out too, thanks. It is quite a hassle testing this though, next time I'm getting one of those vendor supported linux laptops. Hence the reason I recommend the suspend2 list, so that I don't make it more of a hassle for you than it needs to be! Right now, I hope to get this working, and publish my settings so others may be saved from the trouble. good idea. That's what I did with my laptop. cya, -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au Quid me anxius sum? [ What? Me, worry? ] -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Suspend-Hibernate-on-Dell-Inspiron-6000-tp15666510p15769006.html Sent from the gentoo-user mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Suspend/Hibernate on Dell Inspiron 6000
On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 08:18:37AM +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: I've never tried suspend to ram, so I don't have much help. Did you try this with xdm shut down also? You could try the vbetool settings in common.conf. Also, try with/without combinations of SwitchToTextMode, userui_program, etc. And I don't know what AcpiVideoS3Bios but it's worth a try. Yes, I did try with xdm shut down. When I enabled vbetool, hibernate to disk stopped resuming too. I either got a blank screen, or one that displayed lots of colors in a weird pattern before slowly turning off. As you can tell, I'm stabbing in the dark! If you ultimately get nowhere, then the suspend2 users list has excellent help from some of the devs. I'll check that list out too, thanks. It is quite a hassle testing this though, next time I'm getting one of those vendor supported linux laptops. Right now, I hope to get this working, and publish my settings so others may be saved from the trouble. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Suspend/Hibernate on Dell Inspiron 6000
Here's my progress so far: I installed the 2.6.23-tuxonice-r10 kernel, ati-drivers-8.40.4, hibernate-script-1.97-r4, and radeontool-1.5-r3. After this hibernate to disk started working but only from the console with xdm shut off. The logs showed an extra_pages_allowance is currently only 500 message. I then added `ProcSetting extra_pages_allowances 7500` to suspend2.conf after reading some of the links you mentioned, and now hibernate to disk works and resumes within X, and also using Hibernate button in Gnome's shutdown menu. Thanks!! Suspend to ram works but does not resume as before. The laptop seems to be on, but there's a blank screen, and I can't ping the machine. I get the same results from the virtual console as well. The logs after attempting a suspend to ram are at http://buraaq.org/~yahya/suspend/hibernate.log My /etc/hibernate directory is at http://buraaq.org/~yahya/suspend/hibernate/ I'll try different versions of ati-drivers soon and report results, until then any other suggestions are most welcome! Best regards, Yahya -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Suspend/Hibernate on Dell Inspiron 6000
On Tue, 2008-02-26 at 22:03 +0400, Yahya Mohammad wrote: I then added `ProcSetting extra_pages_allowances 7500` to suspend2.conf ah yes, this is a great one isn't it?! This had me stumped for a while. It might a higher number for future driver versions, so always check if you have the right value for extra_pages_allowances if suspend2 fails later. Suspend to ram works but does not resume as before. The laptop seems to be on, but there's a blank screen, and I can't ping the machine. I get the same results from the virtual console as well. I've never tried suspend to ram, so I don't have much help. Did you try this with xdm shut down also? You could try the vbetool settings in common.conf. Also, try with/without combinations of SwitchToTextMode, userui_program, etc. And I don't know what AcpiVideoS3Bios but it's worth a try. As you can tell, I'm stabbing in the dark! If you ultimately get nowhere, then the suspend2 users list has excellent help from some of the devs. cya, -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au I'll say it again for the logic impaired. -- Larry Wall -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Suspend/Hibernate on Dell Inspiron 6000
On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 15:38 +0400, Yahya Mohammad wrote: Hi list, I have a three year old Inspiron 6000 laptop with ATI Mobility Radeon X300 graphics. I can't get the laptop to resume from suspend or hibernate. I have gentoo-sources 2.6.23-r3, hibernate-script and ati-drivers-8.40.4 installed. I have an 3ish yr old Inspiron 9100, with an ATI Mobility 9600/9700 (RV350?). Apparently mine is a special case... Both hibernate and suspend used to work a long time ago, but stopped after a few `emerge -uDN world`s. The older package versions when it used to work aren't in the portage tree anymore :( I've had mixed success over the last 3 years. Various versions and combinations of ati-drivers and kernels did / didn't work. Simple solution could be because some names have changed recently. (suspend2 tuxonice, eg). The other think I can suggest is to try various versions of each. At least try ati-drivers 8.452 flavour, and some ati-drivers 8.35.x to 8.40.4 versions as well. There's also suspend2-sources. er, that's tuxonice-sources now. Try unstable sources and hibernate-script as well. Are you using suspend or suspend2? You might also want to check out radeontool. Does the suspend/hibernate process produce logs anywhere? I don't see anything in /var/log/* post the output when you get logging going from the other suggestion. Will using open source drivers for my graphics chipset help in making suspend/hibernate work? And how do they handle 3D for this chipset? I don't play games, but it would be nice to use Compiz once it's stable in portage. I think the X300 has decent success, unlike mine :( There was some help on the wiki... OK there are a few links you probably want to read: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_ATI_Drivers http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Software_Suspend_v2 (your card is known to work) http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_XGL/Troubleshooting http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_Video_Card_Support_Under_XGL Thanks for any pointers. np, -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au He who despises himself nevertheless esteems himself as a self-despiser. -- Friedrich Nietzsche -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
