USB blocks suspend on a Gigabyte GA-890GPA-UD3H with ATI SB700/SB800

Question

Following on from question 12397, I'd still like to get suspend working on my Phenom II X6 / GA-890GPA desktop machine running current Maverick.

When I run pmi action suspend the machine doesn't crash, but it also doesn't suspend. The kernel logs show:

PM: Syncing filesystems ... done.
PM: Preparing system for mem sleep
Freezing user space processes ... (elapsed 0.02 seconds) done.
Freezing remaining freezable tasks ... (elapsed 0.01 seconds) done.
PM: Entering mem sleep
Suspending console(s) (use no_console_suspend to debug)
pm_op(): usb_dev_suspend+0x0/0x20 returns -2
PM: Device usb8 failed to suspend async: error -2
PM: Some devices failed to suspend
PM: resume of devices complete after 0.430 msecs
PM: resume devices took 0.000 seconds
PM: Finishing wakeup.
Restarting tasks ... done.
PM: Syncing filesystems ...

I've tried disconnecting all the USB devices, and then connecting in to run pmi over ssh, and I get the same failure. With everything unplugged, I see the following usb devices:

Bus 007 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 006 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub

and lspci shows the physical devices are:

00:12.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB OHCI0 Controller
00:12.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB EHCI Controller
00:13.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB OHCI0 Controller
00:13.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB EHCI Controller
00:14.5 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB OHCI2 Controller
00:16.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB OHCI0 Controller
00:16.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB EHCI Controller
02:00.0 USB Controller: NEC Corporation uPD720200 USB 3.0 Host Controller (rev 03)

Booting with no_console_suspend makes no difference.

Answer 1

Do you have a USB3-compatible motherboard?

If so, check this: Computer won't sleep

I had the same problem (although my device ID was 'usb12', the message was otherwise identical). The fix detailed in the above link worked like a charm and fixed the issue for me.

Answer 2

Try different kernels from kernel PPA, you may be lucky. Try 2.6.32, 2.6.35, 2.6.36 final versions (without rc), and 2.6.37.rc1 too. http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/

Install only linux-image-x.x.x-generic_...(i386 or amd64).deb