Bug#655934: ASUS M2A-VM (SB600): Resume not working

[Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>]

retitle 655934 [radeon RS690] resume fails when radeon firmware is not available
severity 655934 important
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Hi Paul,

Paul Menzel wrote:

> with my ASUS M2A-VM [1] system suspend and resume does not work. The
> system suspends fine but pressing the power button afterward the fans
> start turning and the CD drives make noises but the screen does not
> receive any signal and the system even cannot be pinged from another
> system. Therefore I am left to cold reset(?) the system and even
> netconsole does not print anything when resuming the system.
>
> The strange thing is, using the Debian based live system Grml 2011.12
> [2] suspend and resume works fine. The difference is that Grml loads the
> Radeon graphics firmware(?) and I do not have `linux-firmware-nonfree`
> installed.

Yep, that's believable.  I imagine when booting in recovery mode with
radeon.modeset=0 on the command line, suspend and resume works fine?

Please provide full "dmesg" output from booting up the affected system.

Thanks,
Jonathan