[ltp] resume after suspend / hibernate on an R51

[Christos Papadopoulos]

On my X40 the following worked:

Note that the model number for my X40 is 2382. Thus, I can
only confirm that this fix will work with this model number.
Your mileage may vary.

On to the fix:

First, add option "VBERestore" "true" to /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Section "Device"
        Identifier  "Videocard0"
        Driver      "intel"
        Option      "VBERestore"  "true" 
EndSection

Note the use of the newer intel driver (installed by default).

Then, use the following command to suspend.

$ pm-suspend --quirk-vbemode-restore --quirk-s3-bios

You can configure your OS to invoke the above automatically.
If this works and you need help to do it, let me know.

Christos.

On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 02:25:14PM -0600, Yves Dorfsman wrote:
> 
> I run Fedora core 9 on an R51, model 28885RU with an Intel 855GM video card:
> 
> $ lshal |grep hardware
>   system.hardware.primary_video.product = 13698  (0x3582)  (int)
>   system.hardware.primary_video.vendor = 32902  (0x8086)  (int)
>   system.hardware.product = '28885RU'  (string)
>   system.hardware.vendor = 'IBM'  (string)
>   system.hardware.version = 'ThinkPad R51'  (string)
>   laptop_panel.brightness_in_hardware = true  (bool)
> 
> I installed through kick-start and let it pick as many automatic 
> configurations as possible. I update (yum update) on a regular basis. The X 
> server is  x.org 1.4.99, from the fedora package 
> xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.4.99.905-2.20080702.fc9.i386 with the "intel" driver
> 
> Suspend and hibernate work flawlessly, but the problem is of course resume.
> 
> I have tried the suggestions offered at:
> http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Problem_with_display_remaining_black_after_resume
> and
> http://people.freedesktop.org/~hughsient/quirk/quirk-suspend-index.html
> 
> But nothing seems to do it, the laptop never wakes up.
> 
> I don't mind experimenting, but I am running out of ideas now. Anybody got 
> resume to work on this model ?
> 
> Any suggestions of what else I should try ?
> 
> 
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> -- 
> Yves.
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> http://www.sollers.ca/blog/2007/GA-M57SLI-S4_hangs_on_boot/.fr
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