1420n Ubuntu 7.10 suspend/hibernate problems

Question

I upgraded to 7.10 from 7.04 on my 1420n and have been having suspend/hibernate problems. If I press the power key and select suspend, the screen goes black but the fan still runs and the hard drive is still active. If I try to wake up from suspend by pressing any key (including the power key) there is no response and the only way out is to reboot by pressing & holding the power key. The reboot is uneventful. Hibernate is more of a pain. The screen goes black, the power light stays on, the fan stays on. No button press brings it out of this state, but the worst part is that if I hard reboot I am dumped into a full fsck that takes ages to complete. Any thoughts/ideas on what might be causing this? I've scanned through the syslog file and there's no indication in there that something is going wrong before or after I suspend. Thanks. -Ben

dasunst3r · Answer

If you are using a nVidia graphics card, be sure you have the restricted driver installed. To do so, go to System -> Administration -> Restricted Drivers Manager.

BenChoad · Answer

Sorry, I forgot to mention, my machine has the intel (965?) chipset. Though I do notice nVidia drivers being loaded when I look in BootUp-Manager. -B

Desigen · Answer

Hi, I have the same problem but with ATI card. It's not work on 7.04 and on 7.10 Any help ? Thanks

slav0nic · Answer

for intel do: echo 'Runi915resolution true' >> /etc/hibernate/hibernate.conf its work for me ;)

slav0nic · Answer

hm it must be exist... is hibernate package installed? i am used debian lenny

BenChoad · Answer

Thanks for the tip. I tried creating the hibernate.conf file and adding that line, but no change in behavior. -B

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