Display won't work after suspend

[sslove]

Hello everybody, this being my first post, I first want to congratulate and thank everybody who develops for, donates, troubleshoots, reports bugs, submits patches, supports, participates in any way, etc. to PCLinuxOS; it's a fantastic distro.

I have an old Toshiba satellite a105-1014 laptop that I have converted to a Linux internet terminal or whatever, for my guests at my bed and breakfast.

I have tried several different Linux distros on this computer from my huge stack of live CDs, but none work as well as PCLinuxOS. The speed at which it runs a full gnome desktop and the hardware detection are unrivaled by any other distro. Only Puppy Linux, or other light weight distros even come close in performance, but none as full featured as PCLinuxOS; it's truly impressive.

However, I am having one issue that I hope I can get resolved with your help.

The display never comes back on after the lid is closed and the computer goes to sleep/suspend. When I reopen the laptop after it has gone into suspend mode I hear the fans and the hard drive starting up so it seems like it has resumed or woken from sleep/suspend but the display will not come on again.

I have waited patiently for the display to come back on, but it never does. No combination of hitting keys opening and closing the lid again or anything will get the display back on.

The only way that I've found to get the display to work again, is by disconnecting the power, and removing the battery and putting it back in again. Then, at last, it will boot with the display working as normal.

Having this computer working this way for my guests, I'm sure there will be many instances in which this may happen, and it will be very frustrating to have to always do this trick to get it to work or to explain it to my guests and expect them to do it.

I'm hoping I can get this issue resolved with your help. If there is any information that I can provide you to assist me in figuring out or fixing this problem, like copying and pasting some log files or whatever, I'll be happy to do it.

Thanks again, PCLinuxOS is an amazing distro and I hope I can keep it on this computer, and hopefully turn  some new people on to it.

[7272andy]

Hi sslove and welcome,

I'm sorry there's been no help earlier than this, but I'm guessing nobody else has experienced the problem.

Can you enter lshal | grep quirk into a Konsole and post the result please

Regards
Andy

[OMSkates]

Not to oversimplify things, but I've seen this frequently and often just pressing the power button will wake the machine.  Have you tried pressing the power button briefly after opening the lid?

[sslove]

andy, ok, here's what i get in the terminal after pasting the command you gave me:

power_management.quirk.s3_bios = true  (bool)
power_management.quirk.s3_mode = true  (bool)

omskates, i have tried the powerbutton, nothing. only killing the whole system and removing/replacing the battery will get the screen working again.

[7272andy]

OK,
a bit more info and something to try
enter lshal | grep system.hardware into a Konsole and post the output

enter pm-suspend into a Konsole (I'm guessing you won't be able to resume but try anyway)
post the contents of /var/log/pm-suspend.log

enter pm-suspend --quirk-dpms-on into a Konsole (hoping that this will work. If not, post the contents of /var/log/pm-suspend.log again)

Regards
Andy

[MtnMan]

Hello sslove - looks like you are in good hands with Andy but I wanted to add a thought that may be too simple but wouldn't hurt to try.

The display never comes back on after the lid is closed and the computer goes to sleep/suspend. When I reopen the laptop after it has gone into suspend mode I hear the fans and the hard drive starting up so it seems like it has resumed or woken from sleep/suspend but the display will not come on again.

I have heard elsewhere that the screensaver (becomes activated on resume) can cause this kind of failure.  Can you test it also with the screensaver disabled.  Just trying to eliminate a possibility for what its worth.

And welcome.


Edit: I just read your first post again and picked up on the Gnome part.  What installed version are you using and is it up to date?
Pat

[sslove]

Hi sslove and welcome,

I'm sorry there's been no help earlier than this, but I'm guessing nobody else has experienced the problem.

Can you enter lshal | grep quirk into a Konsole and post the result please

Regards
Andy

thanks andy, and sorry i've been MIA since posting for help. here are the results.

lshal | grep quirk

  power_management.quirk.s3_bios = true  (bool)
  power_management.quirk.s3_mode = true  (bool)

pat, the installed version is

pclos gnome 2010.10
build 2010/10/26
kernel 2.6.33.7-pclos6.bfs
gnome 2.32.1

the first thing i did after the install, was to update the system, which took a long while, although the about pclos menu option still shows it as pclos 2010.10

[sslove]

OK,
a bit more info and something to try
enter lshal | grep system.hardware into a Konsole and post the output

 lshal | grep system.hardware
  system.hardware.primary_video.product = 23138  (0x5a62)  (int)
  system.hardware.primary_video.vendor = 4098  (0x1002)  (int)
  system.hardware.product = 'Satellite A105'  (string)
  system.hardware.serial = 'Z5069855Q'  (string)
  system.hardware.uuid = 'A9A63580-6FEF-11DA-A70E-00A0D12B96CA'  (string)
  system.hardware.vendor = 'TOSHIBA'  (string)
  system.hardware.version = 'PSAA2U-01Y018'  (string)


enter pm-suspend into a Konsole (I'm guessing you won't be able to resume but try anyway)

suspend went into effect, and i was not able to wake up the computer.

post the contents of /var/log/pm-suspend.log

ok, this is a long one, but here it is:

Code:

Initial commandline parameters:
Mon Sep 26 18:05:21 CDT 2011: Running hooks for suspend.
Running hook /usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/00logging suspend suspend:
Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.33.7-pclos6.bfs #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu Oct 21 22:42:28 CDT 2010 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
Module                  Size  Used by
snd_usb_audio          64903  0
snd_usb_lib            13866  1 snd_usb_audio
snd_rawmidi            16323  1 snd_usb_lib
af_packet              14122  2
ipv6                  222857  10
snd_hda_codec_realtek   191735  1
snd_hda_codec_si3054     2852  1
snd_hda_intel          19013  3
snd_hda_codec          66319  3 snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_codec_si3054,snd_hda_intel
snd_hwdep               4802  2 snd_usb_audio,snd_hda_codec
arc4                    1073  2
snd_seq_dummy           1266  0
ecb                     1575  2
snd_seq_oss            22774  0
snd_seq_midi_event      5464  1 snd_seq_oss
snd_seq                40753  5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_seq_device          5214  4 snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq
snd_pcm_oss            29040  0
snd_pcm                58856  5 snd_usb_audio,snd_hda_codec_si3054,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_pcm_oss
snd_timer              15794  2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd_mixer_oss          11096  1 snd_pcm_oss
snd                    46351  21 snd_usb_audio,snd_usb_lib,snd_rawmidi,snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_codec_si3054,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_hwdep,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_mixer_oss
ath5k                 107421  0
mac80211              141920  1 ath5k
8139cp                 14031  0
ath                     7377  1 ath5k
sr_mod                 11640  1
8139too                16325  0
cdrom                  28716  1 sr_mod
shpchp                 23804  0
mii                     3885  2 8139cp,8139too
soundcore               5680  1 snd
cfg80211              102730  3 ath5k,mac80211,ath
pci_hotplug            22676  1 shpchp
snd_page_alloc          6506  2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
rfkill                 13919  1 cfg80211
sg                     21491  0
i2c_piix4               7524  0
led_class               2692  1 ath5k
binfmt_misc             5590  1
pcmcia                 26801  0
yenta_socket           17237  1
rsrc_nonstatic          7981  1 yenta_socket
pcmcia_core            28857  3 pcmcia,yenta_socket,rsrc_nonstatic
i2c_core               18110  1 i2c_piix4
nvram                   5352  0
ohci1394               22696  0
sbp2                   16049  0
raw1394                16911  0
ieee1394               69727  3 ohci1394,sbp2,raw1394
fuse                   49640  3
dm_mod                 55938  0
ehci_hcd               27927  0
ohci_hcd               17668  0
usbcore               124336  5 snd_usb_audio,snd_usb_lib,ehci_hcd,ohci_hcd
rtc_cmos                6929  0
button                  4713  0
fan                     2879  0
processor              29811  1
battery                 8252  0
ac                      2650  0
thermal                10903  0
evdev                   6341  9
ide_generic             1035  0 [permanent]
pata_atiixp             2848  1
ata_generic             2315  0
ide_pci_generic         2306  0
ide_gd_mod             19349  0
ide_core               85822  3 ide_generic,ide_pci_generic,ide_gd_mod
pata_acpi               2303  0
sata_sil                6105  4
libata                145448  4 pata_atiixp,ata_generic,pata_acpi,sata_sil
sd_mod                 27633  5
scsi_mod              132396  5 sr_mod,sg,sbp2,libata,sd_mod
crc_t10dif              1195  1 sd_mod
ext4                  266257  2
jbd2                   64781  1 ext4
crc16                   1303  1 ext4
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:        447608     441964       5644          0       7112      76696
-/+ buffers/cache:     358156      89452
Swap:      1259512      38968    1220544

/usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/00logging suspend suspend: success.
Running hook /usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/00powersave suspend suspend:

/usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/00powersave suspend suspend: success.
Running hook /usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/01bootloader suspend suspend:

/usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/01bootloader suspend suspend: success.
Running hook /usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/06mysqld suspend suspend:
Cannot find mysqld service

/usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/06mysqld suspend suspend: success.
Running hook /usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/10network suspend suspend:
Cannot find nfs service
Configured devices:
lo eth0 wlan0
Currently active devices:
lo eth0 wlan0
Shutting down interface eth0:  [  OK  ]
Shutting down interface wlan0:  [  OK  ]
Shutting down loopback interface:  [  OK  ]

/usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/10network suspend suspend: success.
Running hook /usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/15sound suspend suspend:

/usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/15sound suspend suspend: success.
Running hook /usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/30pcmcia suspend suspend:

/usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/30pcmcia suspend suspend: success.
Running hook /usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/40xlock suspend suspend:

/usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/40xlock suspend suspend: success.
Running hook /usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/49bluetooth suspend suspend:

/usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/49bluetooth suspend suspend: success.
Running hook /usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/55NetworkManager suspend suspend:
Having NetworkManager put all interaces to sleep...Done.

/usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/55NetworkManager suspend suspend: success.
Running hook /usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/75modules suspend suspend:
Unloading kernel module ndiswrapper...Done.

/usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/75modules suspend suspend: success.
Running hook /usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/90clock suspend suspend:

/usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/90clock suspend suspend: success.
Running hook /usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/91laptop-mode suspend suspend:

/usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/91laptop-mode suspend suspend: success.
Running hook /usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/92disk suspend suspend:

/usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/92disk suspend suspend: success.
Running hook /usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/94cpufreq suspend suspend:

/usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/94cpufreq suspend suspend: success.
Running hook /usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/95led suspend suspend:

/usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/95led suspend suspend: success.
Running hook /usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/98video-quirk-db-handler suspend suspend:
Using last known working set of quirks.

/usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/98video-quirk-db-handler suspend suspend: success.
Running hook /usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/99laptop-mode suspend suspend:

/usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/99laptop-mode suspend suspend: success.
Running hook /usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/99video suspend suspend:

/usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/99video suspend suspend: success.
Mon Sep 26 18:05:29 CDT 2011: performing suspend

i couldn't post the rest of the command outputs because of a content length 0 error. please see next post.

[sslove]

enter pm-suspend --quirk-dpms-on into a Konsole (hoping that this will work. If not, post the contents of /var/log/pm-suspend.log again)

using this suspend, the result was a little different. as usual, the display would not come back on no matter what, not even removing and replacing the battery had any result. i then pulled out all power sources; both battery and ac adapter, then, finally, i was able to restart with the display working again. here is the pm-suspend.log output:

Code:

Initial commandline parameters: --quirk-dpms-on
Mon Sep 26 18:40:22 CDT 2011: Running hooks for suspend.
Running hook /usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/00logging suspend suspend:
Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.33.7-pclos6.bfs #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu Oct 21 22:42:28 CDT 2010 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
Module                  Size  Used by
snd_usb_audio          64903  0
snd_usb_lib            13866  1 snd_usb_audio
snd_rawmidi            16323  1 snd_usb_lib
af_packet              14122  2
ipv6                  222857  10
usbhid                 30458  0
hid                    56014  1 usbhid
snd_hda_codec_realtek   191735  1
snd_hda_codec_si3054     2852  1
snd_hda_intel          19013  3
snd_hda_codec          66319  3 snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_codec_si3054,snd_hda_intel
snd_hwdep               4802  2 snd_usb_audio,snd_hda_codec
arc4                    1073  2
snd_seq_dummy           1266  0
ecb                     1575  2
snd_seq_oss            22774  0
snd_seq_midi_event      5464  1 snd_seq_oss
snd_seq                40753  5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_seq_device          5214  4 snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq
snd_pcm_oss            29040  0
snd_pcm                58856  5 snd_usb_audio,snd_hda_codec_si3054,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_pcm_oss
snd_timer              15794  2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd_mixer_oss          11096  1 snd_pcm_oss
snd                    46351  21 snd_usb_audio,snd_usb_lib,snd_rawmidi,snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_codec_si3054,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_hwdep,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_mixer_oss
ath5k                 107421  0
mac80211              141920  1 ath5k
ath                     7377  1 ath5k
soundcore               5680  1 snd
8139cp                 14031  0
8139too                16325  0
sr_mod                 11640  0
snd_page_alloc          6506  2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
cdrom                  28716  1 sr_mod
cfg80211              102730  3 ath5k,mac80211,ath
rfkill                 13919  1 cfg80211
mii                     3885  2 8139cp,8139too
sg                     21491  0
shpchp                 23804  0
led_class               2692  1 ath5k
pci_hotplug            22676  1 shpchp
i2c_piix4               7524  0
binfmt_misc             5590  1
pcmcia                 26801  0
yenta_socket           17237  1
rsrc_nonstatic          7981  1 yenta_socket
pcmcia_core            28857  3 pcmcia,yenta_socket,rsrc_nonstatic
i2c_core               18110  1 i2c_piix4
nvram                   5352  0
ohci1394               22696  0
sbp2                   16049  0
raw1394                16911  0
ieee1394               69727  3 ohci1394,sbp2,raw1394
fuse                   49640  3
dm_mod                 55938  0
ehci_hcd               27927  0
ohci_hcd               17668  0
joydev                  7351  0
usbcore               124336  6 snd_usb_audio,snd_usb_lib,usbhid,ehci_hcd,ohci_hcd
rtc_cmos                6929  0
evdev                   6341  9
fan                     2879  0
ac                      2650  0
button                  4713  0
processor              29811  1
thermal                10903  0
battery                 8252  0
ide_generic             1035  0 [permanent]
pata_atiixp             2848  0
ata_generic             2315  0
ide_pci_generic         2306  0
ide_gd_mod             19349  0
ide_core               85822  3 ide_generic,ide_pci_generic,ide_gd_mod
pata_acpi               2303  0
sata_sil                6105  4
libata                145448  4 pata_atiixp,ata_generic,pata_acpi,sata_sil
sd_mod                 27633  5
scsi_mod              132396  5 sr_mod,sg,sbp2,libata,sd_mod
crc_t10dif              1195  1 sd_mod
ext4                  266257  2
jbd2                   64781  1 ext4
crc16                   1303  1 ext4
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:        447608     441808       5800          0       7696      78412
-/+ buffers/cache:     355700      91908
Swap:      1259512      30100    1229412

/usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/00logging suspend suspend: success.
Running hook /usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/00powersave suspend suspend:

/usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/00powersave suspend suspend: success.
Running hook /usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/01bootloader suspend suspend:

/usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/01bootloader suspend suspend: success.
Running hook /usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/06mysqld suspend suspend:
Cannot find mysqld service

/usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/06mysqld suspend suspend: success.
Running hook /usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/10network suspend suspend:
Cannot find nfs service
Configured devices:
lo eth0 wlan0
Currently active devices:
lo eth0 wlan0
Shutting down interface eth0:  [  OK  ]
Shutting down interface wlan0:  [  OK  ]
Shutting down loopback interface:  [  OK  ]

/usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/10network suspend suspend: success.
Running hook /usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/15sound suspend suspend:

/usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/15sound suspend suspend: success.
Running hook /usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/30pcmcia suspend suspend:

/usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/30pcmcia suspend suspend: success.
Running hook /usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/40xlock suspend suspend:

/usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/40xlock suspend suspend: success.
Running hook /usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/49bluetooth suspend suspend:

/usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/49bluetooth suspend suspend: success.
Running hook /usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/55NetworkManager suspend suspend:
Having NetworkManager put all interaces to sleep...Done.

/usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/55NetworkManager suspend suspend: success.
Running hook /usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/75modules suspend suspend:
Unloading kernel module ndiswrapper...Done.

/usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/75modules suspend suspend: success.
Running hook /usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/90clock suspend suspend:

/usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/90clock suspend suspend: success.
Running hook /usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/91laptop-mode suspend suspend:

/usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/91laptop-mode suspend suspend: success.
Running hook /usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/92disk suspend suspend:

/usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/92disk suspend suspend: success.
Running hook /usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/94cpufreq suspend suspend:

/usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/94cpufreq suspend suspend: success.
Running hook /usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/95led suspend suspend:

/usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/95led suspend suspend: success.
Running hook /usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/98video-quirk-db-handler suspend suspend:
Using quirks passed as parameters.

/usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/98video-quirk-db-handler suspend suspend: success.
Running hook /usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/99laptop-mode suspend suspend:

/usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/99laptop-mode suspend suspend: success.
Running hook /usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/99video suspend suspend:

/usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/99video suspend suspend: success.
Mon Sep 26 18:40:31 CDT 2011: performing suspend

[7272andy]

Blast - still, mice and men and all that.

I hadn't noticed that youre running gnome, I don't know think it will have any bearing on this but I may be worth checking on the official gnome forum for another point of view http://linuxgator.org/gnome/forum/

In theory you already have the correct quirks in place but for some reason the video card is not initialising. I can see no simple way of tracking down the fault so we'll just keep trying.

Two more

pm-suspend --quirk-vbe-post

and

pm-suspend --quirk-s3-bios --quirk-s3-mode --quirk-vbe-post

[MtnMan]

Glad to see you haven't given up sslove.  Just one thing before I bow out because there are issues with updating this install and verifying the correct video driver that can be best handled by someone else:  I didn't see anywhere that you tried the mouse/touchpad to bring the monitor out of sleep after a wake from resume.  Have you tried that?  I have screensaver turned off and no "lock on resume" so that I never see that issue.  Just a thought.  

Good luck.

[sslove]

ok andy, i'll check out the gnome forum.

mtnman, i have definitely tried the trackpad buttons, the trackpad, the function buttons, all sorts of buttons on the keyboard etc. none of that does anything. when i hit the amber pulsing power button however, it immediately turns green, the hard drives spin up, theres a beep sound, and the fans come on, so it's definitely coming out of suspend mode right away, only the display does not light up at all.

i noticed that pclos comes with an nvidia configuration tool, but when i launch the pclos control center and go to hardware>configure video card, the card that is auto selected says "ati radeon x1950 and earlier" maybe you guys already know this from the output of the log file, i don't know, it's an overwhelming amount of information, and i don't know what i'm supposed to be looking for in the log files, but just giving you all some additional info in case that helps at all.

there are many different cards i can select, would it be foolish to try to select any others and see how the machine works with them? i ask here before i try because i wouldn't want to lose the display all together, and maybe not be able to get back to where it's mostly working, as it is now.

here's the log output for pm-suspend --quirk-s3-bios --quirk-s3-mode --quirk-vbe-post

Initial commandline parameters: --quirk-s3-bios
--quirk-s3-mode
--quirk-vbe-post
Tue Sep 27 14:39:48 CDT 2011: Running hooks for suspend.
Running hook /usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/00logging suspend suspend:
Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.33.7-pclos6.bfs #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu Oct 21 22:42:28 CDT 2010 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
Module                  Size  Used by
snd_usb_audio          64903  0
snd_usb_lib            13866  1 snd_usb_audio
snd_rawmidi            16323  1 snd_usb_lib
nls_iso8859_1           3197  1
isofs                  26116  1
af_packet              14122  2
ipv6                  222857  10
snd_hda_codec_realtek   191735  1
snd_hda_codec_si3054     2852  1
snd_hda_intel          19013  3
snd_hda_codec          66319  3 snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_codec_si3054,snd_hda_intel
snd_hwdep               4802  2 snd_usb_audio,snd_hda_codec
arc4                    1073  2
snd_seq_dummy           1266  0
ecb                     1575  2
snd_seq_oss            22774  0
snd_seq_midi_event      5464  1 snd_seq_oss
snd_seq                40753  5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_seq_device          5214  4 snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq
snd_pcm_oss            29040  0
snd_pcm                58856  5 snd_usb_audio,snd_hda_codec_si3054,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_pcm_oss
snd_timer              15794  2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd_mixer_oss          11096  1 snd_pcm_oss
snd                    46351  21 snd_usb_audio,snd_usb_lib,snd_rawmidi,snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_codec_si3054,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_hwdep,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_mixer_oss
ath5k                 107421  0
mac80211              141920  1 ath5k
ath                     7377  1 ath5k
sr_mod                 11640  1
soundcore               5680  1 snd
cdrom                  28716  1 sr_mod
snd_page_alloc          6506  2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
cfg80211              102730  3 ath5k,mac80211,ath
8139cp                 14031  0
8139too                16325  0
rfkill                 13919  1 cfg80211
mii                     3885  2 8139cp,8139too
sg                     21491  0
shpchp                 23804  0
pci_hotplug            22676  1 shpchp
led_class               2692  1 ath5k
i2c_piix4               7524  0
binfmt_misc             5590  1
pcmcia                 26801  0
yenta_socket           17237  1
rsrc_nonstatic          7981  1 yenta_socket
pcmcia_core            28857  3 pcmcia,yenta_socket,rsrc_nonstatic
i2c_core               18110  1 i2c_piix4
nvram                   5352  0
ohci1394               22696  0
sbp2                   16049  0
raw1394                16911  0
ieee1394               69727  3 ohci1394,sbp2,raw1394
fuse                   49640  3
dm_mod                 55938  0
fan                     2879  0
ehci_hcd               27927  0
ohci_hcd               17668  0
processor              29811  1
usbcore               124336  5 snd_usb_audio,snd_usb_lib,ehci_hcd,ohci_hcd
rtc_cmos                6929  0
battery                 8252  0
ac                      2650  0
button                  4713  0
thermal                10903  0
evdev                   6341  9
ide_generic             1035  0 [permanent]
pata_atiixp             2848  1
ata_generic             2315  0
ide_pci_generic         2306  0
ide_gd_mod             19349  0
ide_core               85822  3 ide_generic,ide_pci_generic,ide_gd_mod
pata_acpi               2303  0
sata_sil                6105  4
libata                145448  4 pata_atiixp,ata_generic,pata_acpi,sata_sil
sd_mod                 27633  5
scsi_mod              132396  5 sr_mod,sg,sbp2,libata,sd_mod
crc_t10dif              1195  1 sd_mod
ext4                  266257  2
jbd2                   64781  1 ext4
crc16                   1303  1 ext4
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:        447608     441820       5788          0      19676     133824
-/+ buffers/cache:     288320     159288
Swap:      1259512       5872    1253640

/usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/00logging suspend suspend: success.
Running hook /usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/00powersave suspend suspend:

/usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/00powersave suspend suspend: success.
Running hook /usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/01bootloader suspend suspend:

/usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/01bootloader suspend suspend: success.
Running hook /usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/06mysqld suspend suspend:
Cannot find mysqld service

/usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/06mysqld suspend suspend: success.
Running hook /usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/10network suspend suspend:
Cannot find nfs service
Configured devices:
lo eth0 wlan0
Currently active devices:
lo eth0 wlan0
Shutting down interface eth0:  [  OK  ]
Shutting down interface wlan0:  [  OK  ]
Shutting down loopback interface:  [  OK  ]

/usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/10network suspend suspend: success.
Running hook /usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/15sound suspend suspend:

/usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/15sound suspend suspend: success.
Running hook /usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/30pcmcia suspend suspend:

/usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/30pcmcia suspend suspend: success.
Running hook /usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/40xlock suspend suspend:

/usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/40xlock suspend suspend: success.
Running hook /usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/49bluetooth suspend suspend:

/usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/49bluetooth suspend suspend: success.
Running hook /usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/55NetworkManager suspend suspend:
Having NetworkManager put all interaces to sleep...Done.

/usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/55NetworkManager suspend suspend: success.
Running hook /usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/75modules suspend suspend:
Unloading kernel module ndiswrapper...Done.

/usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/75modules suspend suspend: success.
Running hook /usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/90clock suspend suspend:

/usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/90clock suspend suspend: success.
Running hook /usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/91laptop-mode suspend suspend:

/usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/91laptop-mode suspend suspend: success.
Running hook /usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/92disk suspend suspend:

/usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/92disk suspend suspend: success.
Running hook /usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/94cpufreq suspend suspend:

/usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/94cpufreq suspend suspend: success.
Running hook /usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/95led suspend suspend:

/usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/95led suspend suspend: success.
Running hook /usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/98video-quirk-db-handler suspend suspend:
Using quirks passed as parameters.

/usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/98video-quirk-db-handler suspend suspend: success.
Running hook /usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/99laptop-mode suspend suspend:

/usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/99laptop-mode suspend suspend: success.
Running hook /usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/99video suspend suspend:

/usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/99video suspend suspend: success.
Tue Sep 27 14:39:54 CDT 2011: performing suspend

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

and for pm-suspend --quirk-vbe-post

Initial commandline parameters: --quirk-vbe-post
Tue Sep 27 14:18:33 CDT 2011: Running hooks for suspend.
Running hook /usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/00logging suspend suspend:
Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.33.7-pclos6.bfs #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu Oct 21 22:42:28 CDT 2010 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
Module                  Size  Used by
snd_usb_audio          64903  0
snd_usb_lib            13866  1 snd_usb_audio
snd_rawmidi            16323  1 snd_usb_lib
nls_iso8859_1           3197  1
isofs                  26116  1
af_packet              14122  2
ipv6                  222857  10
usbhid                 30458  0
hid                    56014  1 usbhid
snd_hda_codec_realtek   191735  1
snd_hda_codec_si3054     2852  1
arc4                    1073  2
snd_hda_intel          19013  3
ecb                     1575  2
snd_hda_codec          66319  3 snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_codec_si3054,snd_hda_intel
snd_hwdep               4802  2 snd_usb_audio,snd_hda_codec
snd_seq_dummy           1266  0
snd_seq_oss            22774  0
snd_seq_midi_event      5464  1 snd_seq_oss
snd_seq                40753  5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_seq_device          5214  4 snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq
ath5k                 107421  0
snd_pcm_oss            29040  0
snd_pcm                58856  5 snd_usb_audio,snd_hda_codec_si3054,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_pcm_oss
mac80211              141920  1 ath5k
snd_timer              15794  2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd_mixer_oss          11096  1 snd_pcm_oss
ath                     7377  1 ath5k
snd                    46351  21 snd_usb_audio,snd_usb_lib,snd_rawmidi,snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_codec_si3054,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_hwdep,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_mixer_oss
cfg80211              102730  3 ath5k,mac80211,ath
sr_mod                 11640  1
soundcore               5680  1 snd
cdrom                  28716  1 sr_mod
snd_page_alloc          6506  2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
8139cp                 14031  0
rfkill                 13919  1 cfg80211
8139too                16325  0
mii                     3885  2 8139cp,8139too
shpchp                 23804  0
pci_hotplug            22676  1 shpchp
i2c_piix4               7524  0
sg                     21491  0
led_class               2692  1 ath5k
binfmt_misc             5590  1
pcmcia                 26801  0
yenta_socket           17237  1
rsrc_nonstatic          7981  1 yenta_socket
pcmcia_core            28857  3 pcmcia,yenta_socket,rsrc_nonstatic
i2c_core               18110  1 i2c_piix4
nvram                   5352  0
ohci1394               22696  0
sbp2                   16049  0
raw1394                16911  0
ieee1394               69727  3 ohci1394,sbp2,raw1394
fuse                   49640  3
dm_mod                 55938  0
ehci_hcd               27927  0
ohci_hcd               17668  0
usbcore               124336  6 snd_usb_audio,snd_usb_lib,usbhid,ehci_hcd,ohci_hcd
evdev                   6341  9
battery                 8252  0
fan                     2879  0
ac                      2650  0
button                  4713  0
rtc_cmos                6929  0
processor              29811  1
thermal                10903  0
ide_generic             1035  0 [permanent]
pata_atiixp             2848  1
ata_generic             2315  0
ide_pci_generic         2306  0
ide_gd_mod             19349  0
ide_core               85822  3 ide_generic,ide_pci_generic,ide_gd_mod
pata_acpi               2303  0
sata_sil                6105  4
libata                145448  4 pata_atiixp,ata_generic,pata_acpi,sata_sil
sd_mod                 27633  5
scsi_mod              132396  5 sr_mod,sg,sbp2,libata,sd_mod
crc_t10dif              1195  1 sd_mod
ext4                  266257  2
jbd2                   64781  1 ext4
crc16                   1303  1 ext4
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:        447608     441744       5864          0      58372     104052
-/+ buffers/cache:     279320     168288
Swap:      1259512       2716    1256796

/usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/00logging suspend suspend: success.
Running hook /usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/00powersave suspend suspend:

/usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/00powersave suspend suspend: success.
Running hook /usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/01bootloader suspend suspend:

/usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/01bootloader suspend suspend: success.
Running hook /usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/06mysqld suspend suspend:
Cannot find mysqld service

/usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/06mysqld suspend suspend: success.
Running hook /usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/10network suspend suspend:
Cannot find nfs service
Configured devices:
lo eth0 wlan0
Currently active devices:
lo eth0 wlan0
Shutting down interface eth0:  [  OK  ]
Shutting down interface wlan0:  [  OK  ]
Shutting down loopback interface:  [  OK  ]

/usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/10network suspend suspend: success.
Running hook /usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/15sound suspend suspend:

/usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/15sound suspend suspend: success.
Running hook /usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/30pcmcia suspend suspend:

/usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/30pcmcia suspend suspend: success.
Running hook /usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/40xlock suspend suspend:

/usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/40xlock suspend suspend: success.
Running hook /usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/49bluetooth suspend suspend:

/usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/49bluetooth suspend suspend: success.
Running hook /usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/55NetworkManager suspend suspend:
Having NetworkManager put all interaces to sleep...Done.

/usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/55NetworkManager suspend suspend: success.
Running hook /usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/75modules suspend suspend:
Unloading kernel module ndiswrapper...Done.

/usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/75modules suspend suspend: success.
Running hook /usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/90clock suspend suspend:

/usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/90clock suspend suspend: success.
Running hook /usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/91laptop-mode suspend suspend:

/usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/91laptop-mode suspend suspend: success.
Running hook /usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/92disk suspend suspend:

/usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/92disk suspend suspend: success.
Running hook /usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/94cpufreq suspend suspend:

/usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/94cpufreq suspend suspend: success.
Running hook /usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/95led suspend suspend:

/usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/95led suspend suspend: success.
Running hook /usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/98video-quirk-db-handler suspend suspend:
Using quirks passed as parameters.

/usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/98video-quirk-db-handler suspend suspend: success.
Running hook /usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/99laptop-mode suspend suspend:

/usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/99laptop-mode suspend suspend: success.
Running hook /usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/99video suspend suspend:

/usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/99video suspend suspend: success.
Tue Sep 27 14:18:38 CDT 2011: performing suspend

[7272andy]

OK I'm getting suspicious now

i noticed that pclos comes with an nvidia configuration tool, but when i launch the pclos control center and go to hardware>configure video card, the card that is auto selected says "ati radeon x1950 and earlier" maybe you guys already know this from the output of the log file

The Toshiba Satellite A105-S1014 should have an Intel GMA950 graphics card, not NVidia or ATI

as root enter the following

lspci | grep VGA

and

cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf | grep Driver

[sslove]

really? i don't know much about this stuff, but isn't that a more modern/current graphics card? this is an old laptop. anyway, lspci | grep VGA

01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RC410 [Radeon Xpress 200M]

cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf | grep Driver
    Driver "ati"

[7272andy]

Got to check some more stuff out (not forgotton you).

I was wrong about the graphics board in your machine, but it may have given me another lead. Back on Monday

Regards