Bug 582390

Summary: resume results in black but back-lit screen
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Sjoerd Mullender <sjoerd>
Component: xorg-x11-drv-nouveauAssignee: Ben Skeggs <bskeggs>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Sjoerd Mullender 2010-04-14 19:41:56 UTC 
Description of problem:
Suspend works fine, but resume results in an unusable system where the screen is completely black with back light on.  Attempting to switch to another virtual terminal has no noticeable effect.

Suspend/resume has never worked for me in the Fedora 11 and Fedora 12 time frame using the nouveau driver.  When I was using F11, I was able to use the nv driver which allowed me to suspend and resume fine.  With F12 I am unfortunately forced to use the proprietary nVidia driver which does allow me to suspend and resume.

My hardware (see http://www.smolts.org/client/show/pub_a8b134cd-bffb-4414-802c-f12fd3cc3b81) is a Dell Inspiron 1720 with a nVidia GeForce 8600M GT (rev a1) graphics card.

Luckily I'm able to login with ssh to the system after a resume (so I was able to get dmesg output), but rebooting didn't work.  I have to hold the power button to force the system off.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
xorg-x11-drv-nouveau-0.0.15-21.20091105gite1c2efd.fc12.x86_64
kernel-2.6.32.11-99.fc12.x86_64

How reproducible:
100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Boot system to runlevel 5, making sure the nouveau driver is used
2.Log in
3.Suspend
4.Resume
  
Actual results:
Black screen

Expected results:
Usable screen

Additional info:
I'll add dmesg output right after a boot and right after a resume.
Comment 1 Sjoerd Mullender 2010-04-14 19:43:01 UTC 
Created attachment 406613 [details]
dmesg output right after booting and logging in
Comment 2 Sjoerd Mullender 2010-04-14 19:43:46 UTC 
Created attachment 406614 [details]
dmesg output after resume
Comment 3 Sjoerd Mullender 2010-06-17 18:46:25 UTC 
On Fedora 13, the problem is almost the same.  I don't get backlight, but I can still login remotely.  Rebooting also doesn't seem to work.

I'm now using kernel-2.6.33.5-124.fc13.x86_64 and xorg-x11-drv-nouveau-0.0.16-6.20100423git13c1043.fc13.x86_64.
Comment 4 Ben Skeggs 2010-06-26 01:05:10 UTC 
Can you give the kernel at http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=179667 a try and see if there's any improvement.  If not, fresh dmesg logs would be great!
Comment 5 Sjoerd Mullender 2010-06-26 09:32:59 UTC 
For the first time ever I've seen a successful resume when using the nouveau driver.  So it seems this kernel works!
Caveat: I've only tried it once so far.

I did notice that the screen was at its dimmest setting, but that was easily resolved by increasing the brightness.  I have also seen this recently after resuming with the nVidia driver which I have now removed from my system.
Comment 6 Ben Skeggs 2010-06-27 22:32:06 UTC 
Excellent!

The backlight coming back dim is probably the fault of the ACPI backlight driver, nouveau doesn't touch it at all, save whatever defaults your VBIOS scripts setup (in all cases I've seen, max brightness).
Comment 7 Sjoerd Mullender 2010-06-28 06:32:35 UTC 
I've now suspended and resumed quite a few times, and it all seems to work.  I also didn't have a problem with a dim screen anymore.

I'm happy.  Thanks.
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