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[wbharding <bill@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yep, you're right.  After disabling all effects, I am able to restart after
suspend.

On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 7:33 AM, superbondbond
<superbondbond@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> You shouldn't need to disable the ATI driver. It is possible this
> problem has more to do with Compiz than FGLRX, as discussed here:
>
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=7320530&postcount=33
>
> Try disabling all desktops effects, or try running "metacity --replace"
> at a terminal. Suspend/Resume should work OK after that.
>
> --
> ATI Radeon HD 3670 Proprietary FGLRX Drivers break Suspend, Hibernate and
> major performance issues.
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/363533
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>
> Status in “linux-restricted-modules-2.6.24” source package in Ubuntu:
> Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
> 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
>
> ---------------------------------------------
> 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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