I’ve been having issues with my PC not waking from sleep, the fan keeps spinning, but the screen stays black, and it won’t respond. I could just keep it on all the time, but it uses a lot of electricity, so I prefer not to.

So far I’ve tried:

  • Using Wayland / X11
  • Secure boot off/on
  • Installing the latest BIOS update
  • Waking with keyboard presses, mouse movement, power button

Some more information:

  • Sleeps works fine on Windows.
  • I’m using an AMD CPU & GPU
  • I’m using OpenSUSE Tumbleweed, and I’m fully up-to-date (version 20240919).
  • I’m using kernel 6.10.9-1-default (64-bit)
  • I have a swap partition with the same size as my memory
  • @Seasm0keEnglish
    3•2 months ago

    Do you have a swap partition? If not try disabling hibernation.

    • qazOPEnglish
      2•2 months ago

      Yes, I do have a swap partition with the same size as my RAM

  • lurch (he/him)English
    3•2 months ago

    did you try switching to text mode tty console using Ctrl-Alt-F3 or -F4 or -F1 or so? if that works, maybe switching back helps. if switching back doesn’t help, you can at least investigate the logs/journals with text mode.

    • @[email protected]English
      4•2 months ago

      Yeah, I’d certainly try to see if it’s a graphical issue or actually locking up.

      You can also try toggling num/caps/scroll lock to see if the keyboard LEDs respond. That’s a core kernel function, so if even that isn’t working, it’s really locked up. (Or just really slow to respond.)

    • qazOPEnglish
      2•2 months ago

      It didn’t respond to that anymore after entering sleep mode

      • lurch (he/him)English
        2•2 months ago

        I see. You could try and enable Magic SysRq, but honestly I don’t see how that would lead to a permanent fix.

        • qazOPEnglish
          2•2 months ago

          Thanks for the suggestion, I hadn’t heard of it yet and it seems very useful. However, I might as well just shut it down completely in this scenario if I have to reboot anyway.

  • @[email protected]English
    2•2 months ago

    I’ve been having similar issues for a while on OpenSUSE.

    I noticed that if I press the power button it works, but if I try the keyboard, the issue happens

    • qazOPEnglish
      1•2 months ago

      I can’t wake it with the power button either. Do you mean that it freezes after using the keyboard?

    • qazOPEnglish
      1•2 months ago

      Have you been able to find a fix?

      • @[email protected]English
        2•2 months ago

        Didn’t happen again so far, so I didn’t investigate further. The qcode display on my mainboard displayed an error code I think.

      • @[email protected]English
        2•2 months ago

        Okay, it now seems to happen more frequently.

        Man, I had so many issues related to standby and VRR seemingly caused by the amdgpu driver most of the time that I’ll definitely reevaluate whether an AMD GPU is the correct choice for Linux in the future.

      • @[email protected]English
        2•19 days ago

        Not sure if you still encounter the issue, but I finally did some trial and error.

        It doesn’t seem to be related to the AMD GPU, as I briefly swapped it out for an Intel Arc A750 and had the same issue. I then went ahead and tried disabling most onboard devices of my mainboard (ASUS ROG Strix B650E-E) and sure enough: that fixed it. I then re-enabled them one by one, trying waking the PC from sleep each time and narrowed it down to the on-board Bluetooth.

        Do you happen to have a mainboard that has the “MediaTek MT7922A” (or AMD rebranded variant “AMD RZ616”) Wi-Fi/Bluetooth card? If so, try disabling the Bluetooth portion of it in the BIOS.

        • qazOPEnglish
          1•19 days ago

          No, it’s has a Realtek PCIe card, but thanks anyway.

        • qazOPEnglish
          1•19 days ago

          My motherboard (AMD B550) doesn’t seem to have built in Wi-Fi/Bluetooth. It has a Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8822CE 802.11ac PCIe Wireless Network Adapter.