Acer Aspire 7250: no suspend, no hibernate
 

The Apire 7250 came with Windows 7 preinstalled, which still resides on a reduced partition. But on Fedora 17, and than tested on a couple of other Linux distributions -- the ones that could boot from USB -- the suspend works well, untill you have to wake it up. Than, it never lights up the screen so I have no idea how far it gets. And hibernate seems to be out of the question. I asked in the Fedora Forums and somebody pointed in this direction as it seems to be a generic Linux problem.

Do you have any idea? The laptop comes with one of those new BIOSes: one can only set the date, the passwords and the boot device order. Nothing more.

Suspend may be an issue on usb, as suspend unhooks and powers off the usb,leading to Catch-22 type situations. Install to the HD before you declare a problem.

I see. Well, Fedora is installed and it doesn't work. Ubuntu 12.04 was the one before Fedora 17, in its place actually, and it couldn't do it either.

Installed Where? Please state if it's on the hard disk.

It's my view that no distro lands jammy side up first time, and always needs a bit of tuning. Post the output of
nobody can fix 'doesn't work.' Please be more descriptive in your error reports.

Installed on a hard drive. One that is inside the box. Connected with a SATA connector. That is probably speaking one version of the SATA languages.

The /sys/power/state says mem and disk without the and.

And I am sure that you're such a mighty hacker that can start a terminal and read up the output without a display. But maybe you can shed some light for me the silly one and show me how it's done. Or do the spirits of the virtual console run away when the bad vibes of an infidel start to build up?

One thing you might want to check on is to see if this line is in your boot manager config:

append="resume=/dev/sda3 splash=silent" just change the sda3 to what ever your swap partition actually is.

In my case that turned out to be why I was having problems with hibernate. I don't know if it is relevant to suspend though.

Come on guys, no need to be sarcastic here, behave in the way you want to be treated.

@siddarta: Do you have a second machine, so that you can try to connect to your laptop via SSH to see if the machine is working?
Also, are there any errors reported in /var/log/pm-suspend?
I sometimes have a similar issue with my laptop, for me the solution is to switch to a virtual console and then back to the console with the X display (I have a cheap and crappy laptop), so may be that works for you too. Try to press Ctrl+Alt+F1 followed by Alt+F7 (I don't use Fedora, may be the X display is on a different console, so that you have to press one of the other F-keys).

Arcosanti: I'm really lost here. I know what you mean. And it just might work. But I am lost in the new configuration. As it seems the old lilo days with one plain config are over and now there are scripts and script generated configs.

So there it is Fedora 17. It looks like it does use grub2. Yet, there is the grubefi package and not grub2efi that is installed. Efi. Does that Insyde H2o 3.5 qualify as an EFI? Anyway, compared with lilo.conf this grub.conf is a mess.

The swap is /dev/mapper/VG_xxx-lv00 LUKS encrypted.

TobiSGD: Sorry.

Anyway. I don't have that second machine. So this one must work all the time. /var/log/pm-suspend seems to be the way to go. Does it get overwrited? I might just close everything and leave just the Shell, suspend it and wake it up. Will it be cleared after a forced power off? Anyway, I fully forgot abou the console. Sorry business_kid! Fedora seems to have the first console as graphical so the CLI is from C + M + F2.

I'll try theese and come back with some logs.

I haven't forgot. Only didn't have enough time to do the tests.

can u help me with my aspire
 

please need it for school

Hi...

Please create a new thread of your own for this issue. You can do this in either this forum or the "Newbie" forum. ;)

Regards...