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Re: Suspend to RAM very slow on R600?

 

Reported <https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-meta/+bug/501752>,
thanks!


On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 22:36, Albert Vilella <avilella@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> My hunch is mostly based on what I've seen in the linux-acpi mailing
> affecting some toshiba laptops.
>
> If you haven't reported this anywhere yet, I recommend you report it
> using a command like this on a terminal:
>
> apport-bug linux-image-generic
>
> and also quite possibly in the same bug attach your DSDT table info.
> To compile your DSDT information, install if you haven't already the
> acpidump and iasl tools:
>
> sudo apt-get install acpidump iasl
>
> Then run the following commands:
>
> sudo acpidump > acpidump.txt
> sudo acpixtract acpidump.txt
> iasl -d DSDT.dat
> ls -l DSDT.dsl
>
> This will create a DSDT.dsl file that you can attach to the bug report.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Albert.
>
> On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 9:11 PM, Peter Vandendriessche
> <peter.vandendriessche@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > It may be related to mention that hibernation does not work: the screen
> goes
> > black (but with LED backlight still on) for 10-20 seconds on estimate,
> after
> > that it seems to be just screenlocked.
> >
> > (I don't really need hibernate though, since I have to boot from SD
> anyway.)
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 22:09, Peter Vandendriessche
> > <peter.vandendriessche@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>
> >> Interesting, I didn't know suspending to RAM used the hard disk at all.
> >> Anyway, during the long period (say the middle 2 minutes) the 'disk
> access'
> >> light is off. The fan blows heavily though, almost like it's doing
> intense
> >> computations (but I can't imagine what).
> >>
> >> Your remark is very interesing though, since I replaced my hard disk and
> >> the BIOS doesn't seem to recognize it - forcing me to boot through
> grub4dos
> >> from an SD-card. So since standby uses ACPI this may be a related issue.
> >>
> >> Do you have any idea how to solve this? Is this a time-out from the ACPI
> >> to find the disk? And if so, can I lower the timeout threshold?
> >>
> >> Thanks for your reply!
> >> --Peter
> >>
> >> On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 19:42, Albert Vilella <avilella@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> This sounds to me like the hard disk not doing what it should. Do you
> >>> see harddisk activity during the sleep process?
> >>>
> >>> On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 5:02 PM, Peter Vandendriessche
> >>> <peter.vandendriessche@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>> > Hi all,
> >>> >
> >>> > I'm running Kubuntu 9.10 on my R600 and I noted that standby
> ("suspend
> >>> > to
> >>> > RAM") works consistently, but is unreasonably slow: it takes 2
> minutes
> >>> > and 9
> >>> > seconds on average to suspend, while resume takes less than 10
> seconds.
> >>> >
> >>> > This is not normal (normally suspend should go at least faster than
> >>> > resume)
> >>> > and I wonder if anyone is experiencing similar problems and/or is
> aware
> >>> > of a
> >>> > solution?
> >>> >
> >>> > Kind regards and best wishes for 2010,
> >>> > Peter
> >>> >
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> >>
> >
> >
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