On Tue, 13 Nov 2012, David Hare wrote: > On 11/11/12 23:41, Felmon Davis wrote: >> greetings! >> >> I have installed David Hare's exe package on a new-ish Acer Aspire >> 725-0802 with AMD dual-core processor. I had some hiccups but things >> seem settled for the most part though I'm not through quite yet! >> >> anyway, I got hibernate/resume to work, almost. it resumes nicely except >> for the usb drives. >> >> what definitely doesn't reload is xhci. there apparently is a usb 3.0 >> port here and I can't figure out how to get it to wake up automagically >> after hibernate. dmesg says something about 'timeout while waiting for a >> slot' with respect to xhci_hcd. >> >> I have wrestled things to a certain point where if I resume and run the >> following, I get a port: >> >> sudo /sbin/modprobe -r xhci >> sudo /sbin/modprobe xhci >> >> so either I would like to do without this expedient or I would like to >> get resume to run it for me. >> >> to get suspend working, I set up the disk to resume in initramifs and in >> fstab. I don't have any other suspend tools installed to my knowledge. >> >> I am also uneasy with this setup because it doesn't seem like safe >> practices; I think the kernel is complaining about missing pages. not >> sure of this yet. >> >> F. >> > > > Exegnu is straight Debian Squeeze, built from a clean debootstrap, with a > stock Debian kernel, with (not the entire metapackage) TDE installed. No core > stuff is altered from Squeeze. Whatever your DE, that is unlikely to cause > hibernate/resume issues. > > A quick look through the search engines shows others with similar problems, > e.g. : > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2011/02/msg01689.html > > Most likely this is neither a bug from Exe nor TDE I have nothing that new > here to test that (and never actually used hibernate/resume) Squeeze is ~2 > years old now, wheezy is coming soon > > Have you tried the latest kernel from squeeze-backports? > firmware-linux-nonfree installed? > > David sorry, right. wrong place to seek for the problem. to answer your questions: I don't have backports or non-free installed. will look into it. wanted to avoid doing a kernel but that is looking more and more like the way to go. I have it working now, even running my modprobe script on resume but that's a kludge plus there are disturbing messages coming out of dmesg. thanks for the reply. F. -- Felmon Davis Success is merely a matter of luck. Ask any failure. -- Earl Wilson