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From: "Srivatsa S. Bhat" <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Zan Lynx <zlynx@acm.org>
Cc: rjw@sisk.pl, linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Samsung Series 9 seems to require acpi=nonvs to resume properly
Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2011 12:35:39 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E895EC3.3050800@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1317413360.2629.2.camel@knife>

On 10/01/2011 01:39 AM, Zan Lynx wrote:
> On Thu, 2011-09-29 at 14:51 -0600, Zan Lynx wrote:
>> After being annoyed that the latest Fedora 2.6.40 (aka 3.0 something)
>> kernels would not suspend/resume on my laptop I followed a Ubuntu forum
>> suggestion to use acpi=nonvs. This worked, or at least it is working
>> today with Fedora 15's 2.6.40.4-5.fc15.x86_64.
>>
>> The system is also booting via UEFI if that makes any difference.
>>
>> I understand that there is a no-NVS blacklist in the kernel. Should the
>> Samsung Series 9 be added to this list? Or could it be a different
>> suspend/resume problem entirely?
> 
> Please ignore this about nonvs. nonvs has nothing to do with the
> suspend/resume problem on this laptop.
> 
> Instead it seems to involve reboots, which is crazy. From a cold
> power-on start, suspend resume will always fail. But if the laptop is
> rebooted first, suspend and resume appear to work. What the heck? I have
> no clue how to debug this.

Could you provide any error logs you found? That could give us a clue as to
what is going wrong...

> 
> So now it appears that everything I ever tried to fix this only seemed
> to work because I rebooted after changing GRUB or module options.
> 


-- 
Regards,
Srivatsa S. Bhat  <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Linux Technology Center,
IBM India Systems and Technology Lab

  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-10-03  7:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-09-29 20:51 Samsung Series 9 seems to require acpi=nonvs to resume properly Zan Lynx
2011-09-30 20:09 ` Zan Lynx
2011-09-30 20:22   ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2011-09-30 20:34     ` Zan Lynx
2011-09-30 20:50       ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2011-09-30 21:01       ` Keith Packard
2011-10-03  7:05   ` Srivatsa S. Bhat [this message]
2011-10-05 21:19     ` Samsung Series 9 won't resume Zan Lynx

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