One more thing: It's not a hardware problem -- Windows still knows how to suspend.
--Ryan ~ http://iheartryan.com ~ On Tue, 3 Feb 2009, Ryan Jud Hughes wrote: > > Hi. I've been running my laptop for about a year. It's a Lenovo-branded > Thinkpad R61. For most of its life, everything went fine. Suddenly, > about a month ago, I lost the ability to suspend. > > I'm using Ubuntu 8.04, with a variety of their kernels, such as 2.6.22-14. > > I'd like to tell you what version of pm-suspend I'm using, but typing > 'pm-suspend --version' causes the screen to go blank and bumps me to some > blank virtual console or something. > > This is the same thing that happens when I use any combination of quirks > I've tried. I get bumped to some blank virtual console. Perhaps VC 7 > without X graphics on it. Hitting alt-F7 takes me back into X. Nothing > shows up in the syslog or in /var/log/pm-suspend.log. The machine stays > active. The screen is on, it responds to ssh, all calculations continue. > Just that slight bump to the graphics is the only way I know that anything > at all has happened. > > The traditional quirks to use with this hardware platform are s3-mode and > s3-bios. That combination has the same results as any other combination. > > So what should I try? How can I get some more information out of there? > Do I need to set it to some sort of debug mode in order to get the > debugging info? > > Thanks. > --Ryan > > _______________________________________________ > Pm-utils mailing list > Pm-utils@lists.freedesktop.org > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/pm-utils > _______________________________________________ Pm-utils mailing list Pm-utils@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/pm-utils