Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: vbetool
The fact that hibernate worked perfectly in dapper on my eMachines m6805
was one of the factors that convinced me to move to Ubuntu.
Unfortunately since I moved to edgy hibernate no longer works. The
graphics chip is ATI Mobility Radeon 9600. I'm using the stock (open-
source) "ati" driver. (I tried fglrx for fun but it didn't help, so I
switched back.) I have tried many permutations of the settings in
/etc/default/acpi-support but nothing seems to help.
After ignoring the problem for a while I have spent the last week
scouring forum postings and bug reports from different people with
similar problems in older releases and/or on different hardware, but
none of the suggestions I found have helped. In particular, when I run
(from console)
vbetool vbestate save > /tmp/vbe
vbetool vbestate restore < /tmp/vbe
I get a message "Function not supported," and then the screen goes
blank. (At that point I can switch to a different console and switch
back.) In my dapper install nothing bad happens when I run vbetool
vbestate restore.
When I actually hibernate and resume, the system comes up OK but the
screen is garbled. The system doesn't seem to respond to Ctrl-Alt-F1
etc, but Ctrl-Alt-Del works and I can ssh to the machine, so it seems to
be just a video problem.
I do have my dapper install still around for testing if needed. I should
mention that the dapper install is 64-bit and the edgy install is
32-bit.
** Affects: vbetool (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: Unconfirmed
** Description changed:
Binary package hint: vbetool
- The fact that hibernate worked perfectly in edgy on my eMachines m6805
+ The fact that hibernate worked perfectly in dapper on my eMachines m6805
was one of the factors that convinced me to move to Ubuntu.
Unfortunately since I moved to edgy hibernate no longer works. The
graphics chip is ATI Mobility Radeon 9600. I'm using the stock (open-
source) "ati" driver. (I tried fglrx for fun but it didn't help, so I
switched back.) I have tried many permutations of the settings in
/etc/default/acpi-support but nothing seems to help.
After ignoring the problem for a while I have spent the last week
scouring forum postings and bug reports from different people with
similar problems in older releases and/or on different hardware, but
none of the suggestions I found have helped. In particular, when I run
(from console)
vbetool vbestate save > /tmp/vbe
vbetool vbestate restore < /tmp/vbe
I get a message "Function not supported," and then the screen goes
blank. (At that point I can switch to a different console and switch
back.) In my dapper install nothing bad happens when I run vbetool
vbestate restore.
When I actually hibernate and resume, the system comes up OK but the
screen is garbled. The system doesn't seem to respond to Ctrl-Alt-F1
etc, but Ctrl-Alt-Del works and I can ssh to the machine, so it seems to
be just a video problem.
I do have my dapper install still around for testing if needed. I should
mention that the dapper install is 64-bit and the edgy install is
32-bit.
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eMachines m6805: vbetool fails to restore from hibernate in edgy (ok in dapper)
https://launchpad.net/bugs/75177
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