On Thu, 2013-02-14 at 08:27 -0600, Daniel wrote:Could you also try 3.7-trunk-686-pae, from the experimental suite?
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> On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 11:28 PM, Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
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> On Wed, 2013-02-13 at 11:59 -0600, ddshore wrote:
> > Package: linux-base
> > Version: 3.4~bpo60+1
> > Severity: normal
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> > After suspending the laptop, and attempting to resume, I get
> a black screen
> > with the power and wifi icons turned on. I have tried using
> different versions
> > of the Linux Kernel,
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> Which versions?
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> 2.6.32-5-686 and 3.2.0.0.bpo.4-rt-686-pae
That error message means that the kernel supports APM but the BIOS
> > adding pci=nocrs, acp_osi=Microsoft Windows NT,
> > acp_osi=Linux, apm=off (since apparently my laptop uses both
> acpi and apm),
> > acpi=off, but they have the same effect.
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> I very much doubt that this laptop supports APM, as that's
> been obsolete
> for 10 years!
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> So did the people at #linux, but apparently, they got this information
> from my dmesg (which was attached in my previous email). I also get
> error messages saying apm: BIOS not found.
doesn't!
Try going through section 1(a) 'Test modes of hibernation' in:
> As for ACPI, turning it off is generally a bad idea (as you've
> seen!)
> but the advice to 'try acpi=off' is still lingering among
> long-time
> Linux users.
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> Right. They told me the same thing, but wanted to see if anything
> happened at all.
> [...]
> > This bug was also filed for ubuntu, but was never solved
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> (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/675076).
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> And that was quite a few versions back, so evidently this is
> not a new
> problem.
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> Yes, and I've seen some other people with the same problem. Should I
> try getting more info on this problem? Would additional log files
> help?
http://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/power/basic-pm-debugging.txt
but instead of writing 'disk' to /sys/power/state, write 'mem'.
That should help to work out where this is going wrong.
Ben.
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Ben Hutchings
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