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

[CS DBA]

Maybe this holds some glimmer of hope?

https://forums.kali.org/showthread.php?4936-Disable-sleep-when-laptop-lid-is-closed



On 01/21/2015 05:12 PM, Gilles-Philippe Morin wrote:
> These are the "detailed" system settings. The default GNOME system
> settings do not give any option about lid closure.
>
> On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 7:07 PM, CS DBA <cs_dba at consistentstate.com>
> wrote:
>> weird, I'm runnng KDE and  have several pulldown options for this...
>> is there another area of gnome for 'system settings'?
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 01/21/2015 04:35 PM, Gilles-Philippe Morin wrote:
>>> Curiously, GNOME Tweak Tool displays a bold "When Laptop Lid Is
>>> Closed" in the "Power" section but I don't see anything under it.
>>>
>>> On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 6:31 PM, CS DBA <cs_dba at consistentstate.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>> 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'
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 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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>>>>>     <mailto:laptop at lists.fedoraproject.org>
>>>>>     https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/laptop
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> -- 
>>>>> Saludos,
>>>>> Miguel Ángel Pérez
>>>>>
>>>>>
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>>>>
>>

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