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On Monday 04 July 2005 14:35, Ward Poelmans wrote: |
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> Benjamin Fritzsche wrote: |
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> > On Thursday 30 June 2005 20:18, Ward Poelmans wrote: |
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> >>Benjamin Fritzsche wrote: |
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> >>>On Wednesday 29 June 2005 21:33, Ward Poelmans wrote: |
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> >>>>Hi all, |
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> >>>> |
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> >>>>I've got my laptop for some time now ( a Dell Inspiron 8600 ) |
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> >>>>and i want to try hibernation support. I've already discovered |
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> >>>>the hibernation-script and swsusp2. I've have a vanilla kernel |
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> >>>>that works with swsusp2 but that's only S5 and i would like to |
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> >>>>get S3 en S4 also to work. What do i need to use for that ? |
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> >>>>Have you got any experience, advice, hints how to get this to |
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> >>>>work ? |
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> >>>> |
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> >>>>Thanks |
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> >>>> Ward |
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> >>> |
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> >>>Hi ! |
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> >>> |
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> >>>I´ve got the same machine. S3 and S4 work here. forget swsusp2. it only |
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> >>>makes things complicated. use the swsusp which is already in the |
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> >>> standard kernel. |
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> >>> |
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> >>>On my machine both S3 and S4 work pretty much out of the box. Only |
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> >>>configuration is editing the config files hibernate.conf and ram.conf |
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> >>>in /etc/hibernate. |
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> >>> |
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> >>>Only thing I had to change there is the vbetool option (vbetool on) to |
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> >>>get my Video card (ATI 9600) reactivated after suspending. You might |
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> >>> have to try different settings in that section. And figure out if there |
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> >>> are any modules which need to be unloaded/reloaded. In my case its |
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> >>>ndiswrapper and the USB Stuff. |
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> >>>And of course don´t forget to emerge vbetool. |
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> >> |
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> >>Well, i did what you told me and compiled swsusp in the kernel and |
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> >>made an usbcore module. S5 works just fine but |
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> >>with S3 it goes down as it should but it doesn't come |
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> >>back up. The screen stays black but i hear my hard disk |
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> >>come up again. I tried with EnableVbetool and VbetoolPost |
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> >>enable but it didn't help. |
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> >>Did you changed anytime in ram.conf ? |
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> >> |
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> >> |
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> >>Greetz, |
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> >> |
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> >>Ward |
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> > |
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> > Only Thing I did is Enable vbetool. And Switch to text mode. |
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> > |
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> > And I don´t Use a framebuffer on the console. only plain text mode. Maybe |
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> > Radeonfb is confusing your videocard? have you got an ATI card? Do you |
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> > use Firewire? I don´t but I´ve heard it can cause problems, so unload |
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> > those modules aswell if they are loaded. |
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> > |
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> > By the way: Im using vanilla-kernel-2.6.12.1, but it works here since |
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> > 2.6.10 if I remember correctly. |
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> > |
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> > Also test If its only the video card that doesn´t work by blindly going |
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> > to VT1 (Ctrl-Alt-F1) and blindly logging in as root and issueing halt. If |
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> > the system goes down you can be pretty sure its only the Videocard. |
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> |
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> I'm now quite sure it isn't my ATI card. When my laptop comes back up it |
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> hangs and nothing working (no blind root login or numlock LED). |
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> Question is: what else can it be. |
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> I've already tried it with almost all my daemons off and the result |
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> was the same. I'm going to try an vanilla kernel with no framebuffer. |
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> Hope it work then. |
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> Thanks for your help and time sofar. |
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> |
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> Ward |
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Also maybe get the latest BIOS from Dell (A13 I think). Aswell as the Latest |
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VideoBIOS. |
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If that doesn´t I think my advice will come to an end. running out of ideas |
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here ;-) |
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Benny |
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