Re: Suspend stopped working on T60

[Jesse Sheidlower <jester@panix.com>]

On Sat, Sep 01, 2007 at 08:40:21PM -0400, Jesse Sheidlower wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 01, 2007 at 01:47:19PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote:
> > Niklas Rehfeld wrote:
> > > Jesse Sheidlower wrote:
> > > > This morning, I tried to do this and it didn't work; it locked the
> > > > screensaver, but did not suspend.
> > 
> > Did the problem repeate or was this a one time problem?
> 
> The problem has continued; since its initial appearance I
> have been unable to suspend.
> 
> > > I had a similar problem, after I upgraded the kernel after a
> > > security release in the repos, and had to install the graphics
> > > driver modules again (I don't know what graphics card the T60
> > > has). then it all worked fine for me again.
> > 
> > I think you have identified the problem.  When new kernels are
> > installed it will not be possible to resume across them.  The recent
> > Linux kernel security update should have been installed and if so then
> > the running image would not be able to resume after a suspend.
> 
> This may apply to him, but I still cannot suspend even after rebooting,
> so there's no chance that it's a conflict with the running kernel.
> 
> I'm not using the fglrx driver, by the way; I'm using whatever
> default configuration xorg loaded--this worked fine out of the box
> and I didn't see any need to change it. I did try reinstalling
> the video drivers anyway, but still without any luck. I guess I
> might try to start using the fglrx driver, though I'm a little
> worried about messing up X.

OK, I have successfully installed the fglrx driver, and it's working
fine with my X. (Though I must say it looks the same as it did before.)

However, suspend is still not working, even after further rebooting.
Nothing useful in /var/log/syslog.

Any further thoughts on how to debug this? Suspend is extremely 
important for this to be useful as a laptop....

Thanks.

Jesse Sheidlower