Hi all,

I have recently built Debian 6 squeeze on my Toshiba Satellite P200 laptop, Everything runs great on it except the sleep or hibernate function

I have setup the power options so that when the lid is shut it goes to sleep, when i open up the lid i can see the screen and HDD's spin up but the screen remains black. Its backlit but off,i cant get a logon screen to enter my password.

I have to hold the power and cycle and start again. A little annoying if i'm trying to work on something and need to come back later. Doesnt really work.

Anyone troubleshooted an issue like this before? Where can i start? Wanting to try anything o fix it.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks

On Sun, 24 Jun 2012 21:45:06 +1000, Nathan D'elboux wrote:

> Hi all,

Hi Nathan.

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preferable to use plain text instead, thanks :-)

> I have recently built Debian 6 squeeze on my Toshiba Satellite P200
> laptop, Everything runs great on it except the sleep or hibernate
> function

Sleep and hibernate are two different things calling a different set of
routines so, is that both fail, sleep that fails or hibernate?

> I have setup the power options so that when the lid is shut it goes to
> sleep, when i open up the lid i can see the screen and HDD's spin up but
> the screen remains black. Its backlit but off,i cant get a logon screen
> to enter my password.

Are you sure is "sleep" the called function?

> I have to hold the power and cycle and start again. A little annoying if
> i'm trying to work on something and need to come back later. Doesnt
> really work.

Okay, I would start by reading these articles:

http://wiki.debian.org/Suspend
http://wiki.debian.org/Hibernation
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pm-utils

Then, for debugging purposes, manually call the suspend or hibernate
scripts, from command line, to see what happens (man pm-action).

Also, there uses to be a log file at "/var/log/pm-suspend.log" which
registers most of the problems when sending the computer to sleep/
hibernate and also when you want to restore it. Take a look at it.

Greetings,

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Hi Camaleon,

Thanks for your response, I just resolved this issue last night by installing the proprietary drivers from nvidia. It now wakes up from sleeping fine as it should.

Many thanks
Nathan



On 25/06/2012, at 1:20 AM, "Camaleón" <noelamac@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, 24 Jun 2012 21:45:06 +1000, Nathan D'elboux wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>
> Hi Nathan.
>
> Please, don't send html formatted posts to this mailing list, it's
> preferable to use plain text instead, thanks :-)
>
>> I have recently built Debian 6 squeeze on my Toshiba Satellite P200
>> laptop, Everything runs great on it except the sleep or hibernate
>> function
>
> Sleep and hibernate are two different things calling a different set of
> routines so, is that both fail, sleep that fails or hibernate?
>
>> I have setup the power options so that when the lid is shut it goes to
>> sleep, when i open up the lid i can see the screen and HDD's spin up but
>> the screen remains black. Its backlit but off,i cant get a logon screen
>> to enter my password.
>
> Are you sure is "sleep" the called function?
>
>> I have to hold the power and cycle and start again. A little annoying if
>> i'm trying to work on something and need to come back later. Doesnt
>> really work.
>
> Okay, I would start by reading these articles:
>
> http://wiki.debian.org/Suspend
> http://wiki.debian.org/Hibernation
> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pm-utils
>
> Then, for debugging purposes, manually call the suspend or hibernate
> scripts, from command line, to see what happens (man pm-action).
>
> Also, there uses to be a log file at "/var/log/pm-suspend.log" which
> registers most of the problems when sending the computer to sleep/
> hibernate and also when you want to restore it. Take a look at it.
>
> Greetings,
>
> --
> Camaleón
>
>
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On Tue, 26 Jun 2012 08:19:18 +1000, Nathan D'elboux wrote:

> On 25/06/2012, at 1:20 AM, "Camaleón" <noelamac@gmail.com> wrote:

(...)

>>> I have to hold the power and cycle and start again. A little annoying
>>> if i'm trying to work on something and need to come back later. Doesnt
>>> really work.
>>
>> Okay, I would start by reading these articles:
>>
>> http://wiki.debian.org/Suspend
>> http://wiki.debian.org/Hibernation
>> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pm-utils
>>
>> Then, for debugging purposes, manually call the suspend or hibernate
>> scripts, from command line, to see what happens (man pm-action).
>>
>> Also, there uses to be a log file at "/var/log/pm-suspend.log" which
>> registers most of the problems when sending the computer to sleep/
>> hibernate and also when you want to restore it. Take a look at it.

> Hi Camaleon,
>
> Thanks for your response, I just resolved this issue last night by
> installing the proprietary drivers from nvidia. It now wakes up from
> sleeping fine as it should.

Nice to see you've solved it. In fact, the VGA driver is usually one of
the most problematic components for suspending/hibernating smoothly or
when resuming but there are some "hacks" you can try (such as
blacklisting the driver involved to avoid it gets suspended/hibernated)
but well, if using the nvidia driver removes the problem and you're happy
with it, fine then :-)

Greetings,

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