Hi,
Suspend/hibernate has never worked on my Ubuntu 8.04, 64 bit workstation on an Asus P5Q3 mobo. I tried installing uswsusp with no luck. The best I can get is a black screen on reboot or a black screen with one corner randomly colored.

This appears to be a common problem with Ubuntu and some of the proposed fixes involve dangerous, low level brain surgery to the system. Some say to hack the hal-system files, others to install PMI, some to hack the /boot/grub/menu.lst, some to turn off ACPI, some to turn off USB devices, etc.

I don't have enough storage on my other machines to fully backup my 3 TB RAID 5, my 1 TB single drive and all 3 other disk subsystems. I once turned off ACPI to install a promise rocketraid controller and on the next boot, all lf the drives on a 2 TB Linux software RAID 5 became corrupt and it ate over a terabyte of data.

My current RAID controller is a 3Ware, 9650SE, 8 port, PCI-E RAID 5 (6). Will this even survive a suspend/hibernate?

Does anybody have a similar hardware setup with Ubuntu suspend/hibernate working? Would upgrading to 8.10 be a likely solution?

Thank you,

BrianP

Hi,

I have ubuntu 8.10 with a 3ware 9650se-4lpml.

If I suspend, the computer turns off, but I can't wake up anymore. Guess this is becuase of the raid controller.

but the interesting thing is that on a different computer, with a 9650se-2lp, under winXP, both suspend and hibernate works without flaws.

Hope this will be fixed. Suspend would be neat.

hi, just came across your post cause i'm thinking about getting the same controller.

however, i found some older posting about a guy suffering the same issue who solved it by the help of 3ware support.


PLEASE let us know if you did succeed in debugging!


cheers,
rooots.

here's the forum link, i wasn't allowed to post it in my very first post here: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...spend.-702827/

this is suse linux, however, it should be possible to adapt this for other distros as well.