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I am running the latest version of Ubuntu on my T61. Unfortunately, neither suspend nor hibernate work correctly. Has anyone found a distribution that has corrected this problem?

Not that it matters, but it does not work on T30's or X31's or X30's either. I changed the shut lid option to shutdown and called it a day.

Ron

jronald wrote:Not that it matters, but it does not work on T30's or X31's or X30's either. I changed the shut lid option to shutdown and called it a day.

Ron

Nor does suspend/resume work correctly on the X32 with any of the following distros: Mint 10 Julia, Mint 10 Debian Edition, OpenSuse 11.3 Gnome (and, I suspect, KDE).

It does work correctly with Scientific Linux (a RedHat Enterprise clone compiled from source). However, the package manager in SL leaves much to be desired, with user intervention required to resolve dependencies that are routinely taken care of by Synaptic in Debian-based distros and Install/Remove Software in OpenSuse.

I'm ready to "call it a day" as well. Disappointing. Suspend would be nice - leave the laptop plugged in while suspended and press power switch to jump back to where you were. But, oh well. We do pay a price to enjoy the advantages of Linux.

You can try /usr/sbin/pm-suspend and usr/sbin/pm-hibernate from the command line and see if that works.

I saw a post on the Fedora forum where the vanilla Linux kernel worked but the stock Fedora kernel had problems with suspend and hibernate. I saw another post in the same thread where editing the quirk file fixed the issue.
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=254416

Sometimes you need a specific boot parameter to get this resolved.
http://www.wzzrd.com/2010/10/resume-fro ... ecent.html

I use LinuxMint 9 KDE and GNOME versions, Simply Mepis 8.5 & 11.XX, Ubuntu 10.10, Puppy 4.XX and Lucid Puppy 5.XX (USB Flash persistent install) on my T-60. I have both LinuxMints & Mepis 11 installed.

Hibernate is the one I notice doesn't work. Suspend isn't consistent (it intermittently goes into hibernate), so I simply do not go into them. I use a laptop on and off all day. I just settle for screen shut down after 10 minutes of no use.

Would welcome working suspend but I'm not willing to invest a lot of time getting it to work. For now, I just live with it and mostly use my mid-2010 model
Thinkpad Edge, now that I have the input problem with Linux fixed.

--Bruised

I found a solution that worked in OpenSUSE 11.3, which also did not initiate suspend/resume correctly out of the box. I will be trying the solution in Linux Mint Debian Edition once I reinstall it.

It involves simple inserting "nomodeset" in the grub kernel line in OpenSUSE, which uses Grub1, NOT Grub2 which is installed by default in Mint and LMDE.

I will be trying to make suspend/resume work by downgrading Grub2 to Grub1 (called grub-legacy in the Debian repos). I will then try inserting the "nomodeset" spec in Grub and see what happens. Inserting nomodeset in the corresponding line in Grub2 did not work.

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Sleep, Hibernate, suspend do not work in my Thinkpad 14" Edge either. I've tried several major distros. The only one I got to work correctly in Edge is Ubuntu and then I had to shut off some of the new thinkpad functions in order to enter text in word processors and online forums. The pad is too sensitive for Linux Distro drivers.

--Bruised

Suspend and Hibernate were working correctly on my X61 and T500 running Ubuntu 10.10 until a couple of months ago.

Now they are intermittent, and the T500 sometimes goes into a non determinate state (the GUI closes down and the command line is frozen) which requires a power off to recover from. The X61 does not exhibit this behaviour but will at times not respond to the suspense/hibernate menu commands.

I guess an update I have loaded has altered the kernel and caused this issue.

I have Fedora 14 installed on one of my T60s. Suspend works fine, but Hibernate does not (I get an error message saying "Cannot Hibernate"). Maybe I'll try that pm-utils thingy.

dr_st wrote:I have Fedora 14 installed on one of my T60s. Suspend works fine, but Hibernate does not (I get an error message saying "Cannot Hibernate"). Maybe I'll try that pm-utils thingy.

You need a swap partition for *basic* hibernation.

I have mepis 11 on my T60, and suspend works well, albeit using the mepis menu as the Fn buttons don't seem to work. I cannot get hibernate though. Never had much joy trying suspend/hibernate on any puppy linux versions.

FWIW, OpenBSD works perfectly out of the box on my X60s. Suspends immediately and resumes in < 3 seconds back to X with WiFi established. There is nothing, even the vendor-supported Windows, that can beat this.

I do not use hibernate so I cannot tell you if that works.

Arch Linux used to suspend/resume perfectly in the 2.6.32 days. Since then there have been changes made to thinkpad-acpi that are broken, and I think that is why everyone is having problems on other distros. Like just about everything else in the Linux world, this is a regression from where things were two years ago. I am done with that garbage.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sour ... bug/661711

this post(near the bottom) has a user with a missing

/etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/resume

he created the file, and inserted:
replace XXXXXXXXXX with your UUID

Re Hibernate (suspend to disk). Found this in the mepis docs - -http://www.mepis.org/docs/en/index.php?title=Suspend --
It's old info supposedly for Mepis 7 and 8, but it enabled me to get hibernate to work on my T60 running Mepis11.
Simply - go to the folder /boot/grub, and add an entry to the kernel line of your menu.lst file that points to your swap partition: resume=/dev/sdxx.
Here's my entry for mepis 11 on sda3 with swap on sda4:

title MEPIS at sda3, newest kernel
root (hd0,2)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda3 nomce quiet splash vga=788 resume=/dev/sda4
initrd /boot/initrd.img
boot
If Mepis is not your default boot, you'll need to select it from the grub menu on restart. Also, make sure that your swap partition is as big as the amount of physical ram you have installed.

Hope this helps.