Re: Suspend and resume on ASUS Laptops

From: Alan Stern
Date: Sun Dec 04 2011 - 11:54:46 EST


On Sat, 3 Dec 2011, Michal Jaegermann wrote:

> On Sat, Dec 03, 2011 at 10:19:27AM -0500, Alan Stern wrote:
> > On Fri, 2 Dec 2011, Michal Jaegermann wrote:
> > >
> > > On my ASUS K52Jc these controllers are also reported "disabled". This
> >
> > What exactly do you mean by that?
>
> I mean that you asked Steven about a content of
> /sys/bus/pci/devices/0000\:00\:1[ad].0/power/wakeup
> On my ASUS K52Jc these ids also happen to belong to ehci_hcd devices
> (both "Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset USB2 Enhanced Host
> Controller") and both 'wakeup' files show "disabled" too.

Oh, sorry -- I didn't realize you meant the power/wakeup file contained
"disabled". It sounded like you were saying that the controllers were
somehow disabled.

> With that above I have to do all these manipulations with unbinding
> and binding drivers and removing inserting modules or a laptop will hang
> after a suspend. Now with a recent kernel I need additionally put
> wireless driver modules on a "special handling" list or I will loose
> such connection (no hang here, just a dead driver).
>
> All of this looks like pretty consistent, from what one can find on the
> net, across various models of ASUS laptops.

Yes, apparently ASUS's recent chipsets or firmware has a problem with
suspend and resume. On the other hand, I'm writing this on an ASUS
UL20A laptop, which suspends and resumes with no difficulty.

Alan Stern

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