Suspend / Resume [Was: Feedback]

[Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam whitemice org>]

On Sun, 2011-05-01 at 23:40 -0400, Jasper St. Pierre wrote:
> I'm not suggesting the Terminal for everyday usage. I'm just trying to
> get some hardware and pm-utils stats so we can solve the problem for
> other users... all that command will do is print out "Supported" or
> "Not Supported", just as a starting point for the hellish journey
> ahead of us: Debugging Linux Power Management

Is "pm-utils" [mentioned below] meant to be a literal command?

I have no such command [openSUSE 11.4 x86_64].  I have
"pm-is-supported", both "pm-is-supported --hibernate" and
"pm-is-supported --suspend" produce no output and have an exit status of
zero (which according to the man page means "State available".

Suspend worked perfectly for this laptop with GNOME 2.32; after the
update suspend/resume is lethal.  System resumes to a black screen with
a pointer and usually, but not always, some artifact of a window in the
center of the screen.  Ctrl-Alt-F1 will take me to a console where I can
kill X and log in again.  

I've also walked away from the machine and come back, twice, to find a
black screen with nothing but a pointer with even Ctrl-Alt-F1 not
working.  But while I'm using it GNOME 3 has been fast and stable;  I
just can't turn my back on it.

In System Settings / Power I've unchecked both "On AC Power" and "On
Battery" suspend options.

nVidia Corporation GT216 [GeForce GT 230M] (rev a2)
NVIDIA GPU GeForce GT 230M (GT216) at PCI:1:0:0 (GPU-0)
2.6.37.6-0.5-desktop

> On Sun, May 1, 2011 at 11:25 PM, Allan E. Registos
> <allan registos smpc steniel com ph> wrote:
>         >         Generally I like the gnome philosophy of simplifying
>         >         things by removing options. But leaving
>         >         non-technical users with a default setting that does
>         >         not work is not a good choice
>         > Can you give us some hardware details, and try:
>         >   pm-utils --suspend && echo "Supported" || echo "Not
>         > supported"