Sleep and hibernate not working in HP pavilion dv6

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That’s a completely different problem… :man_shrugging:

It working on Windows just means that HP programmed around the BIOS bug with a specific Windows driver.

If you cannot update the BIOS as specified by the kernel ¹, your only course of actions are:

  • don’t use suspend/resume on the old clunker,
  • find an HP Linux driver for suspend (unlikely)

:sob:

Note 1: People much smarter than me (I.E. Linus Torvalds) is telling you to upgrade your BIOS, so you should. Ask on the HP community forum if someone still has the old BIOS upgrades and is willing to share them with you if HP does not provide them any more…
Note 2: There is something called TuxOnIce, but as that patches the kernel, it’s potentially dangerous.
As I haven’t used that in the last 5 years or so, you’re on your own so before reading the docs there, make a cold system backup as you might end up with an an bootable system.

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