LinuxMInt 6 x64bit: Suspend-to-RAM & Suspend-to-Disc Problem

[neo21]

Hi everyone,

just switched to LinuxMint 6 x64bit final (from Fedora 10) and most things seem quite fine.

But I have 2 issues:

• - Suspend does not work. Neither to-disc nor to-RAM. The display turns black, computer does not shut down and within a minute the display is up again with the unlock screen.

• - Logitech Webcam is not working. Since I like using Skype for video chats, this is a little bit anoying. The device seems to be recognized ("USB device (XY) /dev/video0").

The computer is an AMD Athlon x2, 4 GB RAM, Kernel is 2.6.27-7 generic, GNOME 2.24.1, onboard ATI Radeon x1250 graphics (I think radeonhd driver in use, no compiz).

Hope someone can help

[Husse]

To help you we need more information about your hardware
Run lspci and lsusb and post here
The suspend problem may be the Radeon
In lsusb you get an id for the webcam - that and different varieties of linux may give you the answer

[neo21]

@ husse

thanks


here is the output of lspci:

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00:00.0 Host bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS690 Host Bridge
00:01.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS690 PCI to PCI Bridge (Internal gfx)
00:06.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS690 PCI to PCI Bridge (PCI Express Port 2)
00:07.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS690 PCI to PCI Bridge (PCI Express Port 3)
00:12.0 SATA controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 Non-Raid-5 SATA
00:13.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI0)
00:13.1 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI1)
00:13.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI2)
00:13.3 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI3)
00:13.4 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI4)
00:13.5 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB Controller (EHCI)
00:14.0 SMBus: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 SMBus Controller (rev 14)
00:14.1 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 IDE
00:14.2 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA)
00:14.3 ISA bridge: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 PCI to LPC Bridge
00:14.4 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 PCI to PCI Bridge
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RS690 [Radeon X1200 Series]
01:05.2 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon X1200 Series Audio Controller
03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Attansic Technology Corp. L1 Gigabit Ethernet Adapter (rev b0)
04:03.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6306 Fire II IEEE 1394 OHCI Link Layer Controller (rev c0)
04:09.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR2413 802.11bg NIC (rev 01)

And here the output of lsusb:

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Bus 006 Device 007: ID 046d:08d7 Logitech, Inc. QuickCam Communicate STX
Bus 006 Device 003: ID 05e3:0608 Genesys Logic, Inc. USB-2.0 4-Port HUB
Bus 006 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 005 Device 002: ID 0bda:0111 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. Card Reader
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 002 Device 004: ID 046d:c30e Logitech, Inc. UltraX Keys (X)
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 046d:c518 Logitech, Inc. MX610 Laser Cordless Mouse
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub

The graphics card is an on-mainboard integrated one (AMD690G chipset I think), called
"ATI Radeon Xpress 1250" (the related xorg.log entry: ATI Radeon Xpress ?1250? for M2R68L)

thanks.

[Husse]

From googling 046d:08d7 intrepid I found that the camera is a kernel issue
However there are some suggestions here
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sour ... bug/291723
This seems easy to do
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sour ... comments/6
but the rest needs some Linux knowledge
I have not managed to find much about the suspend problem but I'll come back to you about it
It seems that RS690 can be a problem child

[Husse]

Come to think of it - swap needs to be at least the size of your RAM to get suspend to disk to work - we might need really large swap in the future

[neo21]

According to gparted my Linux swap partition is 4.01 gb large which should be sufficient by 4gb ram.

Is there any further information I could provide to get this suspend issue solved?

thanks.

[Husse]

I found that this motherboard has a "break switch" for suspend
http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/Sapp ... M2RS690MHD
I don't know what a "break switch" for suspend is but it sound like it could have something to do with the problem
Perhaps this all AMD/ATI is a problem - will keep looking at it
Here's a mother board similar to yours that copes with suspend
http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=49&t=21521
According to this page RS690 supports suspend
http://www.x.org/wiki/RadeonFeature

[neo21]

@husse

thanks for hanging in. I did a update via synaptic today and installed all
available updates (usually I am quite conservative and just do level 1 & 2
updates via mintUpdate)...

Now I can send the computer to suspend-to-ram and wake up again with
problems related to wifi connection (network is being found but can not
manage to connect successfully)...

I will do some further testing and report them here

PS: i am not using compiz/3d right now

[Husse]

The link in my previous post leads to a solution for wifi

[neo21]

@ husse

I can resume from suspend-to-ram but after wake up the wireless lan does not re-connect nor does it find any network...?!

[Husse]

Suspend and hibernate are problematic (in all operating systems)
I'll have to reread this from the beginning and see if I get some idea

[neo21]

@ husse

thanks for hanging in there. As far as I can tell the radeon and current fglxr drivers are not the problem, tried both now and screen is up and running in both cases after wake up. I have a Atheros chipset wlan card...

[Husse]

I think the solution for wifi is in this topic in the Ubuntu forums
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=982808
If I understand you right that was the remaining problem

[neo21]

@ husse

Thank You very much. That solved the problem (-> Atheros driver was the problem).

I can now use suspend-to-ram and wifi works after wake up (the average connectivity/signal seems to have been improved, too).