Slack 10.0 + Dell Latitude C810 = :(

Nikon01 · 05-03-2006, 08:28 PM

Well for the most part I've gotten everything running groovy but I have a HUGE problem. Whenever I'm in X and I shut the laptop and then open it up I can't get the display back to the desktop. Its all working just fine and so long as I leave up the logout prompt I'm fine but I would like the ability to close my laptop in X.

I've turned off ALL BIOS options on suspend or anything that looked like it might effect it and yet it still happens. Any clues as to how I should go about fixing this? I've tried a new kernel but that didn't help.

Thanks in advance to all help recieved

Charred · 05-03-2006, 09:34 PM

This is my current project, unfortunately, I just embarked on it today.

Have you tried the Suspend2 patch? IMHO, if you can't suspend to ram, hibernation is the next best thing.

Hmmm...are you using Nvidia's proprietary driver? From what I understand, it's not exactly fond of resuming from suspension.

Nikon01 · 05-03-2006, 09:54 PM

I'm using the drivers that came w/ xorg. Would using the nvidia drivers from nvidia solve this? If not I'd rather keep it the way it is

The problem isn't from suspend I don't think cuz I turned it off and whenever I close the laptop it still does it. Unless I'm out of X then it works. Let me know.

Thanks for the reply btw.

Charred · 05-03-2006, 10:29 PM

No problem.

In my experience, Nvidia's drivers can be a bit...picky. I try to get things working with the "nv" driver before I try to get them to work with the proprietary driver (long story short, leave it how it is).

I believe I read somewhere yesterday about sysvinit needing a patch before it will S2R properly in X, I'm trying to find it right now (I think it was in the kernel Documentation files).

Charred · 05-17-2006, 11:09 PM

Sorry about the delay; I'm a bit sick, so things kinda fall apart on me every so often now.

I've been able to suspend to ram (from the command line, I haven't configed the LID event to do anything yet) using Suspend2's ram.conf file. The only problems I'm having are the screen doesn't shut off when I suspend to ram, and X crashes after I resume.

I'm pretty sure that X is crashing because of some incompatible apps I have running in XFCE, but I can't swear to anything. I'll try it in Gnome or KDE later.

As I said earlier, I think you should try using Suspend2; you can config it to use Suspend2's scriptlets, /sys/power/state, or even /proc/acpi/sleep (depricated) if you want.

Oh, that article I read about sysVinit needing to be patched? I never did find it again, but I think it was old old old.

Charred · 05-21-2006, 12:20 AM

OK, I've got it working, here's what I did:

1- D/L and install Suspend2 kernel patch, recompile kernel.
2- D/L and install hibernate scripts for Suspend2

Follow the directions on their HOWTO page and wiki.

3- D/L and install VBEtool (you can get a tgz from LinuxPackages).

4- Edit /etc/hibernate/ram.conf to read:

Code:

UseSysfsPowerState mem
PowerDownMethod platform
Verbosity 0
LogFile /var/log/hibernate.log
LogVerbosity 1
Distribution slackware
SaveClock restore-only
UnloadBlacklistedModules yes
LoadModules auto
EjectCards yes
EnableVbetool yes
VbetoolPost yes
RestoreVCSAData yes
SwitchToTextMode yes
UseDummyXServer yes
XStatus x

5- Add the following option to your xorg.conf:

Code:

(blahblahblah)
Section "Device"
(blahblahblah)
Option    "VBERestore" "true"
(blahblahblah)
EndSection

6- Create the following file as /etc/acpi/events/lid:

Code:

event=button/lid
action=/etc/acpi/lid.sh

7- Create the following file as /etc/acpi/lid.sh:

Code:

#!/bin/sh
if [ ! "$( cat /var/run/lid | grep up )" == "hibernate" ]; then
    echo hibernate > /var/run/lid
    /path/to/hibernate -F /etc/hibernate/ram.conf
fi

and then run

Code:

chmod +x /etc/acpi/lid.sh

to make the script executable.

YMMV.

Edit:
I haven't tried this with Nvidia's proprietary driver yet.