I use a keyboard shortcut to put the computer to sleep. The problem is that after installing the Manjaro 20.1.1 iso, the computer doesn’t wake up in response to keyboard inputs, mouse clicks or movement, or pressing the power button. So I have to reboot it with the reboot button.
The same thing happens when I put it to sleep via the GUI.
I think it is because I don’t have swap allocated for this partition? I have swap allocated for the previous Manjaro Linux partition. I guess I need to allocate separate swap for this one as well? Here’s an answer; probably better to use separate partitions, and in my case it would be even better to delete the older Manjaro partition, or fix the issue that I have with it and delete the new one.
I enabled virtualisation in BIOS, although I don’t need it.
I also followed these instructions:
post installation - the trick to get sp5100_tco working properly is to have it initialised first. you can do that by adding it into mkinitcpio.conf as follows.
open terminal.
issue the command sudo nano /etc/mkinitcpio.conf
find the line that starts MODULES=
alter it so it reads MODULES=(sp5100_tco)
if you want any additional modules loaded earlier put a space between them, they can all be enclosed in the single quote marks already entered, do not add more. e.g. (sp5100_tco amdpgu)
write out the change using CTRL+O
exit using CTRL+X
6 b. edit /etc/default/grub.conf and remove any blacklist reference to sp5100_tco.
regenerate the linux image with sudo mkinitcpio -P
if you altered grub you also need to sudo update-grub
Now I can boot into kernel 5.8. Awake after suspending doesn’t work, however.
But it is working in 5.4, although now only one monitor wakes up.
[jr@fm ~]$ cat /var/log/xorg.0.log.old
cat: /var/log/xorg.0.log.old: No such file or directory
[jr@fm ~]$
That was after sleeping via the GUI.
After systemctl suspend in the terminal and rebooting into 5.8, I didn’t get to the login screen. Currently there is a black screen with a cursor. CTRL+ALT+F2 does not show a tty.
Rebooting again into 5.8, I got in.
[jr@fm ~]$ cat /var/log/xorg.0.log.old
cat: /var/log/xorg.0.log.old: No such file or directory
[jr@fm ~]$
I then slept via the GUI again and rebooted into 5.8 again. However, now Firefox is non-responsive (process ID: 1830), and when I try to close it, after a couple of seconds I get a warning pop up window, saying it’s not responding, do you want to terminate it, but if I click the terminate button nothing happens. kill 1830 also doesn’t close it.
Additionally, systemctl suspend suspended and then it woke up. In the login screen, there was a considerable lag with showing the password after typing it, and doing this process again after logging in, the delay was about 20 s between the login screen appeared and the password prompt showed along with keyboard input. Once more and there was no delay.
Use this kernel then. After all, it is the current LTS version. If you still want to post the missing output, the “x” in “xorg” is uppercase (Xorg.0.log.old). Sorry for the typo.
Yeah LTS is going to be more stable, which is more important for productivity—avoiding time spent fixing issues or bugs—than having the latest features.
I just woke up my computer just now this morning after sleeping overnight, and I had black screens with the cursor, so I rebooted via the tty. Generally speaking, I put the computer to sleep when I’m not using it.
I’d try that. Is there any feature you really need specific from kernel 5.8?
You can also wait a bit, to see if the back screen disappears. My desktop, for example, takes a bit to come back - though I know that’s not normal in a laptop waking from suspend. You can also try changing tty and back. On some occasions it brings the login screen back.
Yeah kernel 5.4 seems best. I’m not aware of any 5.8 feature that I really need.
I didn’t wait for long, only 10 s max, but did try to switch between tty and back. I have 64 GB of RAM, so it’s not like it should take long to restore.
