Graphical display stays black after resume from suspend to RAM (S3)

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Environment

SUSE Linux Enterprise Point of Service
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11

Situation

Under some cirtumstances the graphical display of the affected machine stays black after resume from suspend 
to RAM (S3) if a wireless network card Atheros AR5008 has been installed into the system. There is some conflict 
in the PCI settings that cannot been resolved by the BIOS when waking up.

Resolution

Unload the ath5k module before suspend and reload it after the resume.
Additionally force PCI space and graphical mode saving when calling s2ram.

To achieve this do the following:
1. Add the line S2RAM_OPTS="-f -p -m" to the file /etc/pm/config.d/suspend
2. Generate the file /etc/pm/sleep.d/99ath9k:

#!/bin/bash
case "$1"in

hibernate|suspend)

modprobe -r ath9k

;;

thaw|resume)

modprobe ath9k

;;

esac

exit 0

and then do a chmod +x /etc/pm/sleep.d/99ath9k

Additional Information

Machine(s) affected with Atheros AR5008 wireless network card:

Kramer Sempron - HWTYPE:
IBM4838-510, IBM4838-530, IBM4838-710, IBM4838-730, IBM4838-910, IBM4838-930

Kramer Turion - HWTYPE:
IBM4838-520, IBM4838-540, IBM4838-720, IBM4838-740, IBM4838-920, IBM4838-940

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Document ID:7010115
Creation Date: 06-Feb-2012
Modified Date:28-Sep-2022
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Point of Service
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server

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