Messages in this thread | | | From | "Rafael J. Wysocki" <> | Subject | Re: Suspend and resume on ASUS Laptops | Date | Thu, 1 Dec 2011 10:35:57 +0100 |
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Hi,
On Thursday, December 01, 2011, Steven Rostedt wrote: > For Black Friday I bought myself a ASUS-U56E-RBL8 at Staples for a > decent price. I installed Linux on it but it would not suspend. It would > always hang with the hard drive light on, as well as other leds and the > power light. > > Searching the web, I found this link: > > http://thecodecentral.com/2011/01/18/fix-ubuntu-10-10-suspendhibernate-not-working-bug > > That talks about adding a script found here: > > http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=10359462&postcount=47 > > I added the script and sure enough, my suspend and even resume now work.
Now, that's interesting, but I would lie if I said I knew what it was actually doing, so let me add some USB people to the CC list.
> Before using this script, I've tried this on latest Debian testing and > with the latest Linus kernel (as of last night), and it didn't work. But > with this script, it works there and also with Debian stable and 3.0.10 > kernel. (I hate gnome3 and lack of gnome2 so I created a separate > partition to run Debian testing, but I'm back to Debian stable). > > The reason I'm writing you is, can we fix this without needing this > script? Is there a modification to pm-suspend, or something that can > handle these laptops? > > It just seems crazy to have everyday users add this script.
I totally agree, I had no idea it was necessary.
Thanks, Rafael
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