[ltp] T61 Suspends, won't restore

[John Jason Jordan]

On Sun, 6 Dec 2009 21:16:38 +0000
Pedro Ribeiro <pedrib@gmail.com> dijo:

>On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 9:04 PM, John Jason Jordan <johnxj@comcast.net> wrote:
>> I have had my T61 for about a year and a half, always running Ubuntu x86_64.
>> In all that time it will suspend when I close the lid, but when I open the
>> lid it is stuck in suspend mode. The hard drive light runs a bit when I open
>> the lid, but the keyboard and mouse are dead.
>>
>> Recently I installed a new hard disk and then installed Fedora 11.
>> Unhappily, I get the same results.
>>
>> I have lived with this limiation long enough. I know this has been discussed
>> here in the past, but I can't find the threads and solutions (if any). Can
>> some kind soul point me in the right direction?
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>
>Hi Jason,
>
>I had the same problem and traced it back to pm-utils.
>
>pm-utils is the package used in most distributions to do power
>management on behalf of the (now dead) hal and desktops like GNOME and
>KDE.
>Its problem is that it is full of quirks for old hardware, and on
>newer computers it totally breaks them.
>
>For suspending, I use a custom script which does everything for me.
>All you have to some is assign some keybinding for it and press it
>whenever you want to suspend. There is also a way to specify a custom
>script to run for hal power events, but I believe newer distributions
>don't rely on hal anymore - so you would have to look at how its done
>with Devicekit-power (which is the framework for which hal was
>deprecated).
>
>Anyway, try this script and see if your computer suspends and resumes OK.
>
>I have a T400 which I believe has similar hardware to the T61. Having
>said that, I do not guarantee it to work. Remember you have to run it
>as root. Save the contents between ---------------- as
>suspend-script.sh and make it executable (chmod +x suspend-script.sh)

Pedro,

Thanks for the script. However, I don't have any problem going to sleep. The
problem is that it won't wake up.

I seem to remember discussion of settings in the Grub boot commands that people
were suggesting.