Running Ubuntu on the Advent 4211, when I close the lid it successfully does a suspend and the sleep light on the machine flashes away.

It resumes again after hitting the power button, but the sound is gone and the syslog is spammed with the following errors:

Jul 5 23:46:39 ichigo kernel: [ 2478.123868] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] READ CAPACITY failed
Jul 5 23:46:39 ichigo kernel: [ 2478.123878] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Result: hostbyte=DID_ERROR driverbyte=DRIVER_OK,SUGGEST_OK
Jul 5 23:46:39 ichigo kernel: [ 2478.123891] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Sense not available.
Jul 5 23:46:39 ichigo kernel: [ 2478.124021] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
Jul 5 23:46:39 ichigo kernel: [ 2478.124031] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 00 00 00 00
Jul 5 23:46:39 ichigo kernel: [ 2478.124038] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through

In addition, the machine won't suspend again after this - it just goes to a prompt and comes back up again when the lid is opened.

lsusb also seems to hang indefinitely.

Any ideas?

Looks like this is a bug with Ubuntu itself, not a compatibility issue with the Wind...

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/206952

Okay, I think I've gotten around this problem.

The solution for me was to use uswsusp instead of the default Ubuntu suspend program - it has better features, such as suspend saving an image to the hard drive as well as ram in case the battery runs out, and.. well... it actually works!

Here is how I got it running as the default suspend/resume program in Ubuntu:

First off, you need to install it!


Double check that this installed correctly by typing /sbin/s2 and hitting tab twice - it should show /sbin/s2both and /sbin/s2disk.

Next, you need to disable the old pmi version of suspend. To do this I used dpkg-divert - a clever little utility that just moves modules rather than deleting them so it doesn't break all the module's dependents as it would if you used apt to uninstall it. In addition, all updates to the module are still applied so you can revert back to it whenever you like - but it doesn't overwrite everything you've done when it's updated! Hurray!



Now you need to edit the suspend and hibernate scripts in Ubuntu. Previously these had built in support for other suspend programs, but now they don't so you'll have to add it yourself!



Replace the following code:



with this:



And similarly for hibernate:


This should have a similar section to the one above - edit it so it looks like this:



That's all!

Now when you suspend or hibernate it should run s2both and s2disk respectively, which, for me at least, work perfectly.

If at any time you want to revert back to the original versions of suspend and hibernate, you can just run the following commands:



(This was cobbled together from a guide at http://blog.paulbetts.org/index.php/2007/02/11/fixing-software-suspend-hibernate-with-uswsusp-in-ubuntu-feisty-and-edgy/ and comments there from Robin Battey)

Hope it works for you too!

-Cupcake

I am in hurry, so I just updated link in Wiki Somebody with more time can edit the suspend-section there

hibernation works great now with uswsusp, thanks!. but no sound though, will have a look, it's a common issue, guess the sound system needs a kick when coming out of hibernation.

i've not got round to messing yet, but i've just noticed this section at the end of hibernate script



Its seems to be saying that some devices need to be re-initiated on resume, maybe sound could be added to that list.

Just a thought.

Has anybody else had difficulty getting it to suspend with s2both? When I use s2both it saves everything then shuts down. No sleep light, just plain switched off. Is everyone having this problem or is it just me?

Yeah, it does that on mine too - I guess it just doesn't have support for the suspend light. It still boots faster than s2disk though when turned back on - ~20 seconds for me.

Well mine goes through the bios screen when starting back up so I don't think that it is suspending to ram at all. I think it is just turning off because the msi wind isn't whitelisted.

i'm having this problem too. I've tried forcing it to suspend using s2both --force and still get the same problem. I've tried the acpi_sleep options as well and all the same.

I tried that as well. I think our best bet is waiting for ubuntu to fix the suspend bug in the kernel because that works best. Something that I noticed was that after suspending with s2both I can use the kernel suspend as many times as I want.

I can confirm that.


Adding acpi_sleep s3_bios to the kernel options in /boot/grub/menu.lst has no effect

Have anyone tried to follow those instructions to make s2ram work:
http://en.opensuse.org/S2ram

I'm running Suse 11.0 on 2.6.25.9-0.2-pae and not having any problems with susped/hibernate. The only thing was that Advent is not yet included on s2ram whilelist and therefore is not automatically detected. Running s2ram with -f option sorted it out. s2disk worked straight out of the box.
By the way I've sent "s2ram -n" output to s2ram developers so hopefully will include Advent in their next release.
Could anyone with Wind confirm if getting anything different from below:

I found out how to Resume

To resume, it is related to the boot process, so GRUB and initrd has to be properly configured.

a. GRUB, go to boot/grub, edit menu.lst, make sure the resume option is there. Here is how my menu.lst look like.

title Ubuntu 7.10, kernel 2.6.22-14-generic
root (hd0,1)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.22-14-generic root=UUID=25d8c849-34b1-4009-81e1-d313a20844d7 resume=UUID=6d77e24a-79d3-425c-bac6-f875a3f35855 ro quiet splash
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.22-14-generic
quiet


Make sure the resume points the UUID of your Swap partition.

Taken from this thread and modified for the path of grub in HH

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=750216

To fix the sound type this into terminal "sudo alsa force-reload"

Hi,

I tried your method to fix hibernate & suspend, but it doesn't fix it.
So I tried another method, if it can help, it apparently works for me :
http://forums.msiwind.net/default-msiwind/suspend-and-hibernate-working-with-sound-ubuntu-t1982.html

jix

Hej jix, please I need some feedback in my thread, I can't be expected to root around the forum to see if my method works :]

@cupcake : can you give me the version of the kernel you use please ?

because I have always the error message :



thanks !

(I am using ubuntu 8.04.1)

Hey carmelo,

I've taken the step of ditching the Realtek card and using the Intrepid Kernel to fix all the issues with suspend and resume so I no longer experience this problem...

On the old kernel (2.6.24-16) I was using when I first posted this, the error you are seeing were caused by the card reader not being accessible. The card reader uses the USB subsystem I believe and since this was hanging after resume it couldn't access the card reader.

I think this step is not necessary if you modify the file hal-system-power-hibernate-linux the following way after installing uswsusp.



That is to check the existence of uwsusp utilites before pm-utils.