Eee PC freeze on wakeup
I am running Debian squeeze on a Eee PC 1015B. I can sleep the system
with pm-suspend, but when I wake it up, I get a blank screen, the OS
doesn't seem to be coming back *at all* (i.e. the machine just freezes on
wake up), since I get nothing on netconsole when I wake it up. With the
kernel console log level set to 8 (via dmesg -n 8), the console shows
this on suspend:
[ 188.174330] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
[ 188.401118] atl1c 0000:02:00.0: atl1c: eth0 NIC Link is Up<100 Mbps Full Duplex>
[ 188.710339] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
[ 188.936808] atl1c 0000:02:00.0: atl1c: eth0 NIC Link is Up<100 Mbps Full Duplex>
[ 191.721237] PM: Syncing filesystems ... done.
[ 191.745161] PM: Preparing system for mem sleep
[ 191.745299] Freezing user space processes ... (elapsed 0.00 seconds) done.
[ 191.746346] Freezing remaining freezable tasks ... (elapsed 0.00 seconds) done.
[ 191.746802] PM: Entering mem sleep
[ 191.746876] Suspending console(s) (use no_console_suspend to debug)
Nothing unusual there. And then I get nothing when I wake it up,
although it could just be that the interface is not up in time for
anything to be sent; I'm pretty sure it's frozen, though, since pressing
the power button doesn't cause a clean shutdown (or anything at all).
I'm also getting erratic screen flickering semi-frequently. Not just
blinking on and off, but liney white noise, like what you can get from
a loose monitor connection. I'm not sure whether this is related, or
actually just a loose connection. I suspect it's unrelated, since I get
at the BIOS screen, before the OS has even *started*.
A more likely related problem is the machine (or at least the display)
freezing after it's been on for a while, but this happens rather
infrequently, so I'm not worrying about that now, but I thought it
should be mentioned.
I've tried the --quirk-* options to pm-suspend that seemed relevant:
* --quirk-s3-bios --quirk-s3-mode
* --quirk-vbe-post
* --quirk-vbemode-restore
* --quirk-vbestate-restore
Same symptom.
I tried creating /etc/pm/config.d/00sleep_module with the following
contents:
SUSPEND_MODULES="xhci_hcd"
as described here:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/kernel-package/+bug/711501/comments/4
No joy.
I installed the newer kernel from backports (package
linux-image-3.2.0-0.bpo.4-686-pae) and tried that, which boots to what
looks like white noise (like VRAM corruption) almost right away (in the
virtual console, before X is started). The system definitely finishes
booting, as I can still shut it down cleanly by pressing the power
button (press and release; not press and hold). I tried rebooting with
the vga=771 boot parameter, but that made no difference.
Right now, I'm want to get the backports kernel to boot cleanly –
because that *should* work – and go from there, but I'll try any other
solutions.
Regards,
Aidan Gauland
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