From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752717Ab1LAJdH (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Dec 2011 04:33:07 -0500 Received: from ogre.sisk.pl ([217.79.144.158]:36946 "EHLO ogre.sisk.pl" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752300Ab1LAJdF (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Dec 2011 04:33:05 -0500 From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" To: Steven Rostedt Subject: Re: Suspend and resume on ASUS Laptops Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2011 10:35:57 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.6 (Linux/3.2.0-rc3+; KDE/4.6.0; x86_64; ; ) Cc: linux-pm@vger.kernel.org, LKML , Len Brown , Pavel Machek , "Greg Kroah-Hartman" , Oliver Neukum , Alan Stern References: <1322712689.30977.11.camel@frodo> In-Reply-To: <1322712689.30977.11.camel@frodo> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201112011035.57666.rjw@sisk.pl> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi, On Thursday, December 01, 2011, Steven Rostedt wrote: > For Black Friday I bought myself a ASUS-U56E-RBL8 at Staples for a > decent price. I installed Linux on it but it would not suspend. It would > always hang with the hard drive light on, as well as other leds and the > power light. > > Searching the web, I found this link: > > http://thecodecentral.com/2011/01/18/fix-ubuntu-10-10-suspendhibernate-not-working-bug > > That talks about adding a script found here: > > http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=10359462&postcount=47 > > I added the script and sure enough, my suspend and even resume now work. Now, that's interesting, but I would lie if I said I knew what it was actually doing, so let me add some USB people to the CC list. > Before using this script, I've tried this on latest Debian testing and > with the latest Linus kernel (as of last night), and it didn't work. But > with this script, it works there and also with Debian stable and 3.0.10 > kernel. (I hate gnome3 and lack of gnome2 so I created a separate > partition to run Debian testing, but I'm back to Debian stable). > > The reason I'm writing you is, can we fix this without needing this > script? Is there a modification to pm-suspend, or something that can > handle these laptops? > > It just seems crazy to have everyday users add this script. I totally agree, I had no idea it was necessary. Thanks, Rafael