Suspend and hibernate still not working on my laptop

[Marius Gedminas]

On Fri, Oct 19, 2007 at 07:45:56PM +0100, Michele wrote:
> On 10/19/07, Marius Gedminas <marius at pov.lt> wrote:
> >
> > [snip] Suspend issues are rather hardware-specific and it's nearly
> > impossible to give general advice.
> 
> Sorry, I forgot. Here's the laptop specs. Compaq Evo N610c. 1Gbyte RAM, 30Gb
> HD (1GiB swap, 20GiB /home 9GiB /) Pentium 4 Mobility, ATI Radeon Mobility
> 7500.

I had a laptop with Radeon Mobilty 7500 once.  A couple of video-related
options in /etc/default/acpi-support caused it to freeze on resume
sometimes.

> > It seems that you use uswsusp instead of Gutsy's default
> > suspend/hibernation infrastructure, which is acpi-support.  Why?
> 
> 
> If I try to suspend or hibernate from the GUI, I end up with a locked
> screen. Enter the password and a message tells me that suspend or hibernate
> failed and to check the help.

Can you show the contents of your /etc/default/acpi-support file?

> > In your place I'd try to get acpi-support to work instead.
> 
> That is exactly why I wrote the email in the first place ;-)

Okay :-)

Marius Gedminas
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