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Asked: 2020-09-15 08:31:41 +0800 CST

Black screen after waking from suspend on Ubuntu 20.04

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I am very new to linux. On my laptop I have a multiboot with Windows 10 and Ubuntu 20.04 on the same disk.

The problem is when I suspend to RAM and then wake it up by pressing the power button, the disk starts running, however the screen remains black. I tried logging in blind (the screen was still black and I tried using the keyboard), opening terminal and typing reboot and that works.

Looking for solution, I found this thread. One of the solutions were to sudoedit /etc/default/grub and add nouveau.modeset=0 to the line that says GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX. Apparently it's an nvidia driver bug. Except I have AMD CPU with Radeon graphics, so this isn't my case, right?

Another solution was installing xscreensaver, which I already had installed. I also checked the possibility of having the swap partition encrypted which also wasn't the case.

Is it some problem with AMD drivers? Can you please help me find a solution?

My hardware is HP Probook 455 G7 with AMD Ryzen 3 4300U, AMD Radeon Graphics and 16 GB RAM. I am running 64bit Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS, GNOME 3.36.3 and kernel 5.4.0-47

gdm suspend amd-processor 20.04

6 Answers

  1. Seems like an amdgpu issue, which is resolved in kernel 5.8. As the current kernel is 5.4, you should do:

    sudo apt install linux-generic-hwe-20.04-edge

    I found the answer here: Is there a kernel 5.8 ppa for ubuntu 20.04?

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  2. I stumbled across this post and have an Nvidia card. The sudo ubuntu-drivers autoinstall fixed the issue for me.

    So for anyone with Nvidia cards, it seems that clicking on 'additional drivers' doesn't have what an autoinstall does.

    Update: Yes the above fixed if one has Nivida and same blank screen after suspend, yet found issue remain if logged in, and suspend resumed as normal if I logged out first then suspend. Then resume normal. Strange.

    For debugging I use to have separate home partition and swap partition and all this now since found do not need seaparate partitions. Anyway found another post suggested:

    ... sudo apt install gnome-screensaver ...

    Now No more blank screen after suspend resume. So an easy fix:

    ... sudo ubuntu-drivers autoinstall && apt install gnome-screensaver ...

    p.s. I think it is to do with 'no-more' separate swap and root partitions, and current Nvidia video drivers. not technical so just saying. Thank you all at ask Ubuntu, posting this for others. Happy puppy :-)

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  3. On my Legion 5 pro with NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050Ti this solution works for me (It fixes both issues: change brightness and wake up after suspend)

    1. Select discrete card in BIOS setup
    2. Install drivers
    ubuntu-drivers autoinstall
    1. Open Software & Updates application on tab Additional drivers select nvidia-driver-470, it does not works with nvidia-driver-510

    Restart system

    1. Go to /sys/class/backlight and get available brightness acpi
    > ls /sys/class/backlight
nvidia_0    # <- if you have here nvidia_0 then it's ok
    1. Create backlight rule
    sudo nano /etc/udev/rules.d/backlight.rules

    add this content

    ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="backlight", KERNEL=="nvidia_0", GROUP="video", MODE="0664"
RUN+="/bin/chgrp video /sys/class/backlight/nvidia_0/brightness"
RUN+="/bin/chmod g+w /sys/class/backlight/nvidia_0/brightness"

    Save file

    1. Update grub
    sudo nano /etc/default/grub

    update line with GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT

    GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash acpi_backlight=nvidia_0 nvidia.NVreg_RegistryDwords=EnableBrightnessControl=1"

    save file

    sudo update-grub

    Restart system

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  4. The problem can come from GPU drivers. Try this one, then restart your laptop:

    sudo ubuntu-drivers autoinstall
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  5. I've noticed that I have issues coming back from suspend if the video driver and line 11 of /etc/default/grub do not correlate to the following:

    if using the NVIDIA proprietary driver go into /etc/default/grub and change line 11 to GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=""

    if using the X.org driver go into /etc/default/grub and change line 11 to GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="nouveau.modeset=0"

    After making the change depending on which driver I'm using it has resolved the issue.

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  6. if using the NVIDIA proprietary driver go into /etc/default/grub and change line 11 to GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=""

    if using the X.org driver go into /etc/default/grub and change line 11 to GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="nouveau.modeset=0"

    and... You need to check the settings of the NVIDIA driver!!! Mine was on balanced and nothing helped until I changed to the FullPower-NVIDIA or the Powersaving Xorg driver...

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