macbook freezes when waking from suspend

[bradhaack]

New install on old macbook. I have it setup to suspend when I close the lid. Sometimes it wakes up OK, but sometimes I get the login screen, enter the password and it freezes and won't log me in. The only solution I've found is to reboot.

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$ inxi -Fxxxrz
System:    Kernel: 5.8.0-43-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: N/A Desktop: Xfce 4.14.2 tk: Gtk 3.24.13 
           info: xfce4-panel wm: xfwm4 dm: LightDM 1.30.0 Distro: Linux Mint 20.1 Ulyssa 
           base: Ubuntu 20.04 focal 
Machine:   Type: Laptop System: Apple product: MacBook7,1 v: 1.0 serial: <filter> Chassis: type: 10 
           v: Mac-F22C89C8 serial: <filter> 
           Mobo: Apple model: Mac-F22C89C8 serial: <filter> BIOS: Apple v: MB71.88Z.003F.B00.1802022149 
           date: 02/02/18 
Battery:   ID-1: BAT0 charge: 46.2 Wh condition: 48.4/62.9 Wh (77%) volts: 12.6/10.9 
           model: SMP bq20z451 type: Li-ion serial: N/A status: Charging cycles: 731 
           Device-1: hidpp_battery_0 model: Logitech Wireless Mouse M525 serial: <filter> 
           charge: 100% (should be ignored) rechargeable: yes status: Discharging 
CPU:       Topology: Dual Core model: Intel Core2 Duo P8600 bits: 64 type: MCP arch: Penryn rev: A 
           L2 cache: 3072 KiB 
           flags: lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 ssse3 vmx bogomips: 9556 
           Speed: 796 MHz min/max: 798/2394 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 968 2: 1104 
Graphics:  Device-1: NVIDIA MCP89 [GeForce 320M] vendor: Apple driver: nvidia v: 340.108 
           bus ID: 02:00.0 chip ID: 10de:08a0 
           Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.9 driver: nvidia unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,nouveau,vesa 
           resolution: 1280x800~60Hz 
           OpenGL: renderer: GeForce 320M/integrated/SSE2 v: 3.3.0 NVIDIA 340.108 direct render: Yes 
Audio:     Device-1: NVIDIA MCP89 High Definition Audio driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 00:08.0 
           chip ID: 10de:0d94 
           Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.8.0-43-generic 
Network:   Device-1: NVIDIA MCP89 Ethernet vendor: Apple driver: forcedeth v: kernel port: 22a0 
           bus ID: 00:09.0 chip ID: 10de:0d7d 
           IF: enp0s9 state: down mac: <filter> 
           Device-2: Broadcom and subsidiaries BCM43224 802.11a/b/g/n vendor: Apple AirPort Extreme 
           driver: bcma-pci-bridge v: N/A port: 2280 bus ID: 01:00.0 chip ID: 14e4:4353 
           IF-ID-1: wlp1s0b1 state: up mac: <filter> 
Drives:    Local Storage: total: 232.89 GiB used: 20.02 GiB (8.6%) 
           ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Hitachi model: HTS545025B9SA02 size: 232.89 GiB speed: 1.5 Gb/s 
           rotation: 5400 rpm serial: <filter> rev: C60W scheme: GPT 
Partition: ID-1: / size: 227.73 GiB used: 20.02 GiB (8.8%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda3 
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 56.0 C mobo: N/A gpu: nvidia temp: 60 C 
           Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A 
Repos:     No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list 
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/official-package-repositories.list 
           1: deb http://reflection.oss.ou.edu/linuxmint/repos ulyssa main upstream import backport
           2: deb http://mirror.cs.unm.edu/archive focal main restricted universe multiverse
           3: deb http://mirror.cs.unm.edu/archive focal-updates main restricted universe multiverse
           4: deb http://mirror.cs.unm.edu/archive focal-backports main restricted universe multiverse
           5: deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ focal-security main restricted universe multiverse
           6: deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/ focal partner
Info:      Processes: 164 Uptime: 20m Memory: 7.52 GiB used: 1.50 GiB (19.9%) Init: systemd v: 245 
           runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 9.3.0 alt: 9 Shell: bash v: 5.0.17 running in: xfce4-terminal 
           inxi: 3.0.38 

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Welcome to the forum, bradhaack.

The LTS kernel for LM20 is the 5.4 kernel and I recommend you use it instead of the 5.8 kernel with this computer because you are using the Nvidia-340 driver which was never designed to be used with kernels higher than 5.4. It's possible that may be causing the issue you are seeing.

According to Nvidia Support timeframes for Unix legacy GPU releases,"The Linux 340.* legacy driver series is the last to support the G8x, G9x, and GT2xx GPUs, and motherboard chipsets based on them. Support for X.Org xserver version 1.20 was added to the 340.* legacy driver series with version 340.107, and support for Linux kernels up to Linux 5.4 was added with version 340.108. No further releases from the 340.* series are planned."

If the kernel change does not help, perhaps something in this thread "2010 MacBook Pro screen garbled upon resuming from suspend" Solved might have some information that could help your situation.

[bradhaack]

thx
I've reset it to use the latest 5.4 kernel. I read somewhere that the 5.8 kernel was 'better' for something similar so I installed that. To fix it, I couldn't get the grub menu until I commented out some lines in the grub cfg file.

#GRUB_TIMEOUT_STYLE=hidden
#GRUB_TIMEOUT=0

Then in 'Update Manager', view-linux kernels, and deleted the 5.8 kernels.

I'll check out that other thread, I do get garbled screens sometime

Testing...