Dell Inspiron 1525: Many Intel Graphics Problems, Resume from Suspend Broken

Dexter L. Pearson dexterpearson at aim.com
Tue Jan 27 14:24:41 UTC 2015


Another possibility -- corrupted kernel upon install/upgrade.

It may sound stupid, but I just experienced a similar case with the 
Power Management features when I did the network upgrade from F19 x64 
KDE to F20 x64 KDE on my Dell D531. The kernel version embedded is 
3.11.8-301. But, for some reason, it seems like part of it is corrupted 
or damaged somehow because hibernation doesn't work correctly. Whether 
it's from the menu, *sudo pm-hibernate*, or *sudo systemctl hibernate*, 
it would go down properly; however, when you power it on, the session's 
lost and it acts like it was a restart or fresh boot. [There was also a 
problem with several RPMs installed in it to where I couldn't install 
new programs because most of them were newer than what was available in 
the repositories.] So, out of aggravation, I did a total reformat and 
clean install from the F20 KDE LiveCD, only to have the same problems 
with hibernation.

I came across a random article in http://ask.fedoraproject.org from a 
Yahoo! search and came across the suggestion of reinstalling the kernel. 
As long as you're not trying to reinstall the current one, you can do a 
fresh kernel install. I did a search on the Fedora buildsystem 
<http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/> site for another available version 
of the kernel. I recently upgraded to 3.15.9-201.fc20.x86_64 
<http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=552720> by 
downloading both the kernel and the headers. Then, I just did a *sudo 
yum localinstall kernel kernel-headers* from the terminal, not from 
Apper (or whichever Software Management GUI you're using). Just in case, 
I rebooted into the new kernel I installed and tried the suspend and 
hibernate options. Everything worked fine. I haven't tried the current 
delta kernel -- 3.17.8 -- that's in the repository, but, if you do, I'd 
suggest doing it from the terminal with the full install as a precaution.

Hope this helps,

Dexter

CS DBA wrote on 1/21/2015 6:31 PM:
> Maybe as a short term fix you could go to the power management 
> settings and set the 'event' for closing the lid to 'lock screen' 
> instead of 'sleep'
>
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> On 01/12/2015 12:32 PM, Miguel Ángel Pérez wrote:
>> Hi Gilles-Philippe,
>>
>> All of this seems to be the fault of the graphic driver and there is 
>> no fast solution for this. If you cannot wait for the intel guys to 
>> fix this in their driver then you could back up your data and go back 
>> to fedora 20 if it worked on your laptop.
>>
>> If you can't go back, then filing the bug upstream and waiting is the 
>> only thing you can do ...
>>
>>
>> 2015-01-12 19:17 GMT+01:00 Gilles-Philippe Morin 
>> <gilles.philippe.morin at gmail.com 
>> <mailto:gilles.philippe.morin at gmail.com>>:
>>
>>     Hello,
>>
>>     I am in deep trouble now that I have upgraded to Fedora 21. My main
>>     production computer — a Dell Inspiron 1525 laptop — fails most of the
>>     time to resume from RAM suspend and thus I cannot use it at school
>>     anymore.
>>
>>     At the same time, this issue is accompanied by many graphical issues.
>>     I do not know if they are linked together.
>>
>>     When I say "suspend from RAM", I mean closing the lid of my laptop.
>>     When I say "resume from suspend", I mean opening that lid.
>>     When I say "fail to resume", I mean getting a black screen with a
>>     working cursor and responsive keyboard. The only buttons that don't
>>     work are the brightness buttons and the Prnt Scrn buttons. Switching
>>     to another TTY works.
>>
>>     I made many dmesg outputs, after boot, after a succeeding resume,
>>     after a failed resume in another TTY. The latter does not provide me
>>     anything meaningful, but the two first ones are filled with warnings.
>>
>>     I always get a warning for the i915 GPU DRM:
>>     https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=962386
>>
>>     At boot, my kernel gets tainted because of a graphical warning:
>>     https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1177477
>>
>>     After a succeeding resume, I get a firmware bug:
>>     https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1180939
>>
>>     And finally, the very inconvenient resume fails:
>>     https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1176645
>>
>>     I also get graphical glitches from time to time, but I have no
>>     idea if
>>     they are related to the above bugs:
>>     https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1178543
>>
>>     I get next to no responses in Bugzilla after weeks. The Google+
>>     community points me to my own Bugzilla filings. The IRC tells me to
>>     use Google. How can I solve this fast?
>>
>>     Here's my setup:
>>     Fedora 21 Workstation
>>     Processor: Intel® Pentium(R) Dual CPU T2390 @ 1.86GHz × 2
>>     OS Type: 64-bit
>>     Graphics: Intel® 965GM
>>     GNOME: Version 3.14.2
>>
>>     I installed the following software since installation:
>>     Age of Empires (WINE)
>>     Blender
>>     California
>>     cmus
>>     Dropbox
>>     GIMP
>>     Google Chrome
>>     LibreOffice 4.3
>>     Pidgin
>>     Simple Scan
>>     Skype
>>     Steam
>>     Tweak Tool
>>     vim
>>     Wine
>>     World of Goo (Steam)
>>
>>     I am willing to give any additional information that can accelerate
>>     the solution-finding.
>>
>>     Please help me, thank you.
>>
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>>
>> -- 
>> Saludos,
>> Miguel Ángel Pérez
>>
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