[Bug 390158] Re: [MSI MS-7329] suspend/resume failure [non-free: nvidia]

[Indie]

I've got the same problem on a MSI Media Live
(http://eu.msi.com/index.php?func=proddesc&prod_no=1113&maincat_no=134&cat2_no=636&cat3_no=313)
that use the MS-7329 motherboard though I'm using 9.10. I've tried both
i386 and x86_64 versions and they both have the same results - it goes
into suspend fine then appears to wake up but nothing happens. The
keyboard is USB and does not work, Ctrl-Alt-Del doesn't do anything. I
have to press the power button it for 5 seconds to turn it off. I've
also tried with openSUSE 11.2 and that has the same problem. I'm using
the latest BIOS 1.63.

Then the other day I had a look in the BIOS and saw that under Power
Management it was set to use S1 (POS) so I switched to S3 (STR), the
other option was Auto. There was also another option about POSTing Video
BIOS on S3 resume.

In single user mode without X or anything running I ran s2ram, I had to
try various options as some would just cause it to resume straight away
for some reason. It did eventually go into suspend and when I pressed
the power button it did come back on BUT the screen was blank. I tried
various combinations of options with s2ram and using i386/x86_64
versions and they all had the same result. Though as opposed to when it
was set to S1, this time the keyboard was still alive. I've got a
program that controls the LCD display on the case that displays the time
so I know if it's alive or not. The USB keyboard does now respond and
I'm able to get suspend it again/reboot. But there is now display!

In answer to:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingKernelSuspendHibernateResume

-Is it reproducible?
 It behaves the same way every time.
-Did it work before?
  I've never had suspend working on this machine before, not under Linux and I've never installed Windows on it.
-Do you end up with flashing caps-lock or similar?
  No, when the BIOS is set to S3 mode the Caps/Num work along with the rest of the keyboard
-Hibernate specific information
  I've tried hibernate before but my main issue is to get suspend to work. Hibernate did work, from what I can remember, to the degree of what S3 does now. It restores but the screen goes blank when it thaws.

I have tried the pm_trace method but that didn't show anything, it only
came back with a Magic number and no hash match so that was useless.

Can't the kernel set the mode whether it be S1/S3 instead of leaving it
to the BIOS?

Is there a way to kick the screen into life?

** Attachment added: "lshw.txt"
   http://launchpadlibrarian.net/40297841/lshw.txt

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[MSI MS-7329] suspend/resume failure [non-free: nvidia]
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/390158
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