willing to contribute - so laptops suspend better - but how?

[Valent Turkovic]

On 5/31/07, Jarod Wilson <jwilson at redhat.com> wrote:
> Valent Turkovic wrote:
> > On 5/24/07, Chuck Ebbert <cebbert at redhat.com> wrote:
> >> On 05/24/2007 02:51 PM, Valent Turkovic wrote:
> >> > On 5/24/07, Valent Turkovic <valent.turkovic at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> >> On 5/24/07, John bowden <j-alan at btconnect.com> wrote:
> >> >> > On Thursday 24 May 2007 13:08:32 Valent Turkovic wrote:
> >> >> > > On 5/24/07, Gianluca Sforna <giallu at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> >> > > > On 5/24/07, Valent Turkovic <valent.turkovic at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> >> > > > > I would like to help troubleshoot my laptop and then other 10
> >> >> I have
> >> >> > > > > access to but I can't find how to do that.
> >> >> > > > >
> >> >> > > > > Is there any wiki page or some other resource that I can use?
> >> >> Or can
> >> >> > > > > you look at this one and give me some specific pointers?
> >> >> > > >
> >> >> > > > Try here:
> >> >> > > > http://people.freedesktop.org/~hughsient/quirk/
> >> >> > >
> >> >> > > Been there, done that - no honey :)
> >> >> > >
> >> >> > > Does fedora community have some more resourceful page regarding
> >> >> > > suspend/resume on laptops?
> >> >> > >
> >> >> > > When I had the same issue with the same laptop I was blown away
> >> with
> >> >> > > OpenSuse page - http://en.opensuse.org/S2ram - they hit nail on
> >> the
> >> >> > > head with their wiki page IMHO.
> >> >> > >
> >> >> > > Fedora needs more online resources - quirks page is not
> >> sufficient.
> >> >> > >
> >> >> > > Valent from Croatia.
> >> >> >
> >> >> > Don't know if this is of any help as I'm trying to get my touch pad
> >> >> working my
> >> >> > note book is a similar model.
> >> >> > http://www.red-web.ro/ics/f7-on-HP500.html
> >> >> >
> >> >>
> >> >> I must say Fedora 7 test 4 works just great in other respects on my
> >> >> laptop - seams you have much more problems. Ok, my wireless iwl3945
> >> >> doesn't work (I filed a bug also for that) but I can make it work with
> >> >> few commands... but suspend/resume I can't make to work no matter what
> >> >> I try.
> >> >>
> >> >> Valent.
> >> >>
> >> > Ok, it seams I have some bios problem issues!
> >> >
> >> > I wen't back to OpenSuse 10.2 in which I claimed suspend works - and
> >> > it did work before - now it doesn't work anymore!
> >> >
> >> > I had to upgrade my bios in order to get Intel VT option in bios - and
> >> > that FINALLY enabled me to run Xen virtualisation! But it seams that
> >> > this new bios now has some other issues so not even OpenSuse which
> >> > worked doesn't now :(
> >> >
> >> > First time I tried to suspend under OpenSuse 10.2 it freezed, and
> >> > second time it started to wakeup but some really strange noises came
> >> > from the HDD that FREAKED me out! I powered it off as soon as possible
> >> > - and everything worked fine on power up!
> >> >
> >> > Do you have any information, does Intel virtualisation have any thing
> >> > to do with suspend/resume? Does it need to be disabled in order for
> >> > suspend/resume to work?
> >>
> >> Try unloading the kvm and kvm-intel modules before suspending.
> >>
> >
> > They aren't loaded
> >
> > [root at fedora74 ~]# lsmod|grep kvm
> > [root at fedora74 ~]#
>
> Are you running a Xen kernel? And if so, does suspend work with a
> non-Xen kernel?

I'm not running Xen kernel. With Xen kernel it won't even suspend.

I get my laptop to suspend ok but it won't resume - it freezes on resume.

please check out my BZ report, there are much more info about what I
got to work and what I didn't.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=240964

Regards
Valent.

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