I made a post yesterday about how I got a new laptop and it does not suspend properly and just goes to a black screen where my only option is to force shut it down by holding the power button.

After an entire day I still have not figured it out. But, I did narrow it down. TLP, drivers (it’s all open source AMD), small swap partition, etc, are not the issue. After two reinstalls, I decided to install it with KDE just out of curiosity to see if it still has the problems and nope. Works just fine. Now I went ahead and installed Gnome on top of the KDE install and once again, if I try to suspend through Gnome, it fails to do so and gives me a black screen where nothing is responsive.

What could be the cause of this? I also tried running on Xorg and the problem still persisted. But I’m pretty sure by now that it is a Gnome problem and not a device problem.

If you want more context you can check out my previous post. Any inputs or advice would be greatly appreciated.

Edit: Turns out the official OpenSuse build of kernel 6.7.6-11 does not sit well with my laptop and instead downloading and using a community version of the kernel posted on software.opensuse.org ended up fixing the issue. Very odd.

  • captainfeeny@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    What is your sleep setting in BIOS? I had some problems with Linux sleep that got fixed by switching to Windows sleep. Maybe try that?

  • Potatofish@lemmy.world
    1·
    9 months ago

    Also have an AMD laptop. This started happening some kernel versions ago. Try closing your laptop again and opening it. It’s dumb, but that worked for me.