[Tfug] Help getting new laptop to suspend/hibernate correctly

[Dennis McCormick]

On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 9:03 AM, Glen Pfeiffer <glen at thepfeiffers.net> wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
>
> I am running Debian 6 on a new laptop from ZaReason. So far,
> everything works beautifully on it except hibernate/suspend. I
> have opened a support ticket with them, but while I am waiting
> for them to build a new Chimera to test with, I thought I would
> see if any of you can offer some insight.
>
> Here is what happens when I try to initiate a suspend or
> hibernate from within Gnome (using the Gnome menu option):
>
> 1. The screen goes blank.
> 2. The screen turns off.
> 3. I see a terminal like window with a blinking cursor. No text
>   is ever displayed to the screen.
> 4. I see the gnome-screensaver unlock dialog.
> 5. After unlocking, all my programs are running.
>
>
> I also tried manually suspending using pm-suspend. Below my sig
> is the content of /var/log/pm-suspend.log. This makes it look
> like it was able to suspend correctly but immediately wakes up.
>
>> Fri Aug 19 15:39:29 PDT 2011: performing suspend
>> Fri Aug 19 15:39:31 PDT 2011: Awake.
>> Fri Aug 19 15:39:31 PDT 2011: Running hooks for resume
>
> Anyone have any ideas what I should look at next?
>
> --
> Glen
>
Does the BIOS have any wake-on-lan or other such wake-on features?

Dennis McCormick