Problem suspending ASUS A7V8X based desktop

Problem suspending ASUS A7V8X based desktop

[Pavel Troller]

Hi!
  I have a desktop machine based on ASUS A7V8X motherboard. This one exhibits
strange behaviour when trying to suspend either to RAM or to DISK: Immediately
after writing an activation entry to /proc/acpi/sleep, the system seems to 
perform a kind of "periphery reset" - the screen goes blank (stops generating
video, the monitor shuts itself down), hard disks stop etc. After a short while,
hard disk starts (probably the one necessary for writting the swap in the case
of STD), but the video card remains dead. The system then enters the required
suspend state.
  The problems start after resuming: For example, when resuming from STD, all
goes well, I can see how the swap image is loaded, interrupts restored etc., 
but immediately before the end of resume, screen blanks again and remains dead.
There is no way to restore it (including switching between X and text console).
I think that it somewhat remembers its incorrect state into which it's put
at the beginning of the suspend and returns to it.
  With STR, there is even a BIOS feature to run VGA BIOS on resume, so
no s3_bios is necessary in Linux, but after a very short period of display
activity it is lost too.
  Video card used:
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV31 [GeForce FX 5600] (rev a1)
operated with Nvidia driver (build 7667). This drivers seems to be PM-aware.
Happens identically on all the recent kernels including 2.6.13-rc5.
  Any ideas ?
                       With regards, Pavel Troller


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Re: Problem suspending ASUS A7V8X based desktop

[Avuton Olrich]

On 8/6/05, Pavel Troller <patrol-FIBU9iiavH4@public.gmane.org> wrote:
...blah blah blah...
>   I have a desktop machine based on ASUS A7V8X motherboard. This one exhibits
> strange behaviour when trying to suspend either to RAM or to DISK: Immediately
> after writing an activation entry to /proc/acpi/sleep, the system seems to
> perform a kind of "periphery reset" - the screen goes blank (stops generating
> video, the monitor shuts itself down), hard disks stop etc. After a short while,
> hard disk starts (probably the one necessary for writting the swap in the case
> of STD), but the video card remains dead. The system then enters the required
> suspend state.
>   The problems start after resuming: For example, when resuming from STD, all
> goes well, I can see how the swap image is loaded, interrupts restored etc.,
> but immediately before the end of resume, screen blanks again and remains dead.
> There is no way to restore it (including switching between X and text console).
> I think that it somewhat remembers its incorrect state into which it's put
> at the beginning of the suspend and returns to it.
>   With STR, there is even a BIOS feature to run VGA BIOS on resume, so
> no s3_bios is necessary in Linux, but after a very short period of display
> activity it is lost too.
>   Video card used:
> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV31 [GeForce FX 5600] (rev a1)
> operated with Nvidia driver (build 7667). This drivers seems to be PM-aware.
> Happens identically on all the recent kernels including 2.6.13-rc5.
>   Any ideas ?
>                        With regards, Pavel Troller
> 

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4723

I have had similar problems, standby works, but not S3, and don't
honestly care too much about disk :). I just hope S3 works one day. My
bug was pretty verbose so you should see the similarities if you check
it out.

Also, I have been getting this message in my dmesg in the latest kernels:
acpi_bus-0212 [02] acpi_bus_set_power    : Device is not power manageable

I tried asking how I could find out which device this is but I got no
answer to the mailing list.

avuton
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Re: Problem suspending ASUS A7V8X based desktop

[Pavel Machek]

Hi!
 
>   Video card used:
> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV31 [GeForce FX 5600] (rev a1)
> operated with Nvidia driver (build 7667). This drivers seems to be PM-aware.
> Happens identically on all the recent kernels including 2.6.13-rc5.
>   Any ideas ?

Anything mentioning nvidia proprietary drivers is off-topic here. Try
again with open-source drivers.
								Pavel
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Re: Problem suspending ASUS A7V8X based desktop

[Avuton Olrich]

On 8/8/05, Pavel Machek <pavel-+ZI9xUNit7I@public.gmane.org> wrote:

> Anything mentioning nvidia proprietary drivers is off-topic here. Try
> again with open-source drivers.

I understand that wasn't directed at me, but I have personally tried
the open-source drivers with this motherboard and the result is no
different (as stated in the bugzilla report).

avuton
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Re: Problem suspending ASUS A7V8X based desktop

[Pavel Machek]

Hi!

> > Anything mentioning nvidia proprietary drivers is off-topic here. Try
> > again with open-source drivers.
> 
> I understand that wasn't directed at me, but I have personally tried
> the open-source drivers with this motherboard and the result is no
> different (as stated in the bugzilla report).

Ok, see bugzilla.

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Re: Problem suspending ASUS A7V8X based desktop

[Stefan Seyfried]

On Mon, Aug 08, 2005 at 04:28:57PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
>  
> >   Video card used:
> > 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV31 [GeForce FX 5600] (rev a1)
> > operated with Nvidia driver (build 7667). This drivers seems to be PM-aware.
> > Happens identically on all the recent kernels including 2.6.13-rc5.
> >   Any ideas ?
> 
> Anything mentioning nvidia proprietary drivers is off-topic here. Try
> again with open-source drivers.

The problem here is, that the NVidia drivers can bring the card back from
suspend while the open source nv driver can't.

Life is hard.
-- 
Stefan Seyfried



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