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** Description changed:

  Running on a Jaunty Jackalope daily builds from a couple of days after
  the beta was released I am unable to resume from sleep and hibernation.
  It seems most of the process goes fine but when the gray password box is
  shown there is an error. I can see the box and the brighter field where
  I am supposed to enter my password but it seems frozen in the middle of
  initializing because it has no distinct border (the text box looks
  disabled). It seems that it doesn't even respond to keyboard input
  because ctrl+alt+backspace doesn't do anything either (yes I activated
  this function already).
  
  I cannot see anything strange in the log files but I am also not sure
  what to look for and where but I'd be happy to post if you give me
  indication on what to check.
  
  Regards,
  Kristofer
  
  More stuff:
  
  Release
  Description:	Ubuntu jaunty (development branch)
  Release:	9.04
  
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  Update 2009-04-26
  I now think I know what causes this problem. I installed from from scratch with the final release of Jaunty and at first it seems the problem had disappeared until I activated the proprietary graphics driver for my ATI card to be able to use desktop effects such as Compiz and AWN. Now the problem has reappeared and it seems it also causes some other problems:
  
  - The screen switcher (on the integrated keyboard) button no longer works, without the driver it correctly switches between external/laptop and cloned screens when I press this button. With the driver installed the screen only goes blank for a second before returning in the same mode as previously.
  - Setting resolution etc. in Display Preferences gets generally unreliable and when I start it with a second screen connected hangs while using ~100% CPU of one core. Without external screen connected (VGA - I havent tried DVI) it works fine to start it and change resolution.
  - Some times the screen goes blank when games through wine change the resolution.
  
  The graphics card is 512MB ATI Radeon HD 3670 and I can't find any more
  details for the driver except the name in the proprietary drivers app:
  "ATI/AMD proprietary FGLRX graphics driver".
  
  If you need any further information, let me know, I just want get this
  to work as soon as possible...
+ 
+ ----------------------------------------
+ Update 2009-05-21
+ 
+ I have now done some further research and also tested ATI's 9.5 driver
+ from their homepage. It seems that this driver fixes some issues and
+ breaks others. The sleep problem has gone away when using metacity as
+ window manager but is still present with compiz (I cannot be 100% sure I
+ tried this in metacity before although I will likely go back soon and so
+ will check it again). In other words I should probably report this to
+ compiz devs instead.
+ 
+ The performance issues (so mild I hardly noticed) seem to have worsened
+ with 9.5 from ATI and my computer even hung twice with a blank screen.
+ Again, seems to be compiz-only issue.
+ 
+ What is still a big issue is the multiple screens handling. This
+ behavior is the same in metacity and compiz but is also very different
+ with the 9.5 driver I installed a couple of days ago. The keyboard
+ button to toggle clone desktop/switch to extended desktop now seems to
+ try to do the correct things and at least cloning works. Other settings
+ are very buggy and I am unable to do any changes in the "Display"
+ application in preferences with multiple screens. Most commands time out
+ saying there was no reply. So it seems this driver is not well supported
+ still...
+ 
+ What is most likely to be fixed - support for the ATI proprietary driver
+ that ships with ubuntu or improved support for newer ones such as the
+ 9.5? Trying to sort out where to put my trouble shooting efforts.

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ATI Radeon HD 3670 Proprietary FGLRX Drivers break Suspend, Hibernate and major performance issues.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/363533
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