[ltp] T43 (2668-89U) and sleep/hibernate

[azazello]

 > I'm using gentoo, kernel "suspend2-sources" (a gentoo package, which
 > is the kernel.org kernel plus gentoo's patches plus swsuspend2
 > patches).  I'm using the "hibernate" and "hibernate-ram" scripts.
 >
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This is strange, I'm using the same scripts and almost the same 
configuration as you. While my sleep used to fail to resume for a 
mysterious reason once in a hundred times or so, for the past few months 
both sleep and hibernate have been rock solid and failed only 
deterministically, for good software reasons. The big difference is that 
mine is a T40.

Sorry to hear about your frustration - I know the feeling, it took me 
forever to figure out the insanity that is laptop support on Linux (and 
still no display hotplug!) - but I'm stumped. The only thing that comes 
to mind is toggling the EnableVbetool option and related options in 
/etc/hibernate/common.conf - but if it's having trouble resetting the 
video, that should manifest itself on startup, not shutdown...

Might also try other kernel versions. Like a really old one - sleep has 
been reliable for me since at least 2.6.17.

Finally, try Feisty (now in beta). It has all the latest and greatest 
voodoo for laptop hardware support. (You could also install the relevant 
package port that I'm maintaining for Gentoo, 
http://overlays.gentoo.org/proj/sunrise/browser/sunrise/sys-power/acpi-support)

-az

> Generally, the problem isn't with waking, it's with suspending.  For
> suspend-to-disk, when *usually* happens is the screen goes blank
> (totally black), the "moon" light starts blinking, and it just stays
> like that forever (moon light still blinking).  The machine is
> totally hard-locked: caps lock doesn't work, ctl-alt-delete doesn't
> do anything, nada.  I must push and hold the power button to shut
> down the machine.
> 
> With suspend-to-ram, it's a mixed bag.  Most typically, the screen
> goes blank, then the moon light starts flashing, then those other
> two lights (the caps lock light and the other one) start blinking
> simultaneously.  Machine is hard-locked as described above.
> 
> I'm suspending using the hibernate scripts package ("hibernate" and
> "hibernate-ram").
> 
> I'm not opposed to changing distros.  That's why I was hoping I
> could catch someone on this list who has all this working.  I want
> to run Linux on this machine, but more than that I want to actually
> *use* it.  Generally I'm not opposed to trouble-shooting/trial and
> error, but all that is keeping me from being able to do real work on
> the T43.  So I'm basically at the point now where, if I can't get
> this working in less time than it would take to put Windows back on
> and install Cygwin, then I'll just take the latter route.