Re: swsusp problems with 2.6.17-1.2139_FC5

[Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>]

Hi!

> > Stop right here. Can you reproduce the problem without ATI driver?
> > Reproducing it on vanilla kernel (not -FC5) would be nice, too.
> 
> A lot of suspend/reboot/resumes later...
> 
> The problem does not seem to be related to the ATI driver, but whether
> or not the pm-suspend program is used. With the Xorg driver I get the
> same problem when I suspend with

>   echo shutdown > /sys/power/disk; echo disk > /sys/power/state
> 
> When I use pm-hibernate suspend/resume seems works okay (with Xorg and
> ATI driver).

What is pm-suspend and pm-hibernate, anyway?

> With 2.6.16, I did not have the need to use pm-hibernate. So something
> changed here.

Okay, find out 

> As mentioned in my OP using pm-hibernate does not give any feedback
> what is going on (except for the disk led). I find this annoying.
> Another annoyance is that pm-hibernate locks this kernel for the next
> reboot, so it is not possible to boot something else and resume
> later.

grub lockup is a distro problem. Turn up console loglevel to see  the
messages.

> Apart from that, suspend/resume is a life saver!
> 
> (Now it would be nice to get suspend to memory working. It seems to
> suspend okay, but I haven't found out how to resume...)

Resume is always harder :-). Is resume completely broken, or does it
"only" break video?
								Pavel
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