[Pm-utils] Fwd: Suddenly lost the ability to suspend

[Victor Lowther]

On Tue, 2009-02-03 at 11:23 -0500, Ryan Hughes wrote:
> One more thing:  It's not a hardware problem -- Windows still knows how to 
> suspend.

If only it were that easy do diagnose. :(

> --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
> >
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