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I have installed the new Debian-11 (with XFCE) on a desktop and it is otherwise working very well. However, the "Suspend" is not working properly.

Earlier with Debian-10 on same desktop, on pressing Suspend, the screen would go blank, the disk activity would stop and the power light would go from continuous on to slow blinking state. On pressing the space bar, the desktop would awaken promptly to same state.

However, with new Debian-11 install, on pressing Suspend, the screen goes blank, but the disk activity and the power light remains continuously on. Also, on pressing space bar to resume, the display does not appear and I have to do a hard reboot. On rebooting, the messages include recovering journal for this partition and many clearing orphaned nodes messages.

Almost exactly same things happen if I press "Hibernate" or "Hybrid Sleep" buttons on xfce logout panel.

This desktop has a Nvidia card with nouveau as the driver. The graphics information from inxi --full command is as follows:

Graphics:  Device-1: NVIDIA GT218 [GeForce 210] driver: nouveau v: kernel 
           Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.11 driver: loaded: modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa resolution: 1600x900~60Hz 
           OpenGL: renderer: NVA8 v: 3.3 Mesa 20.3.5

What could be the cause of this problem and how can it be solved?

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  • What does the syslog contain?
    – mashuptwice
    Commented Feb 17, 2022 at 8:25
  • /var/log/syslog is a large file. What exactly should I check there?
    – rnso
    Commented Feb 17, 2022 at 12:41
  • Does this answer your question? "Suspend" and Nvidia problems in fresh Debian Stable install
    – mashuptwice
    Commented Feb 17, 2022 at 18:30
  • There is no answer there. The problem has been persisting and I forgot I had posted it earlier. Will delete one of these soon.
    – rnso
    Commented Feb 18, 2022 at 7:25

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Sorry to necrobump but as I am in the exact same situation (S3 which does not working with the nouveau driver on a nVidia GeForce 210 GPU on the same system with XFCE too) and as I found a workaround, I propose to you to describe it here.

To make nouveau allows the S3 in disabling the init_on_alloc kernel parameter (source) :

root@host:~# grep GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT /etc/default/grub
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet init_on_alloc=0"

Note 1 : this parameter enable heap memory zeroing on allocation by default (more here)

Note 2 : the same was tested with success too with a nVidia GeForce 8400GS 256MB DDR2 card

In my case the nouveau driver is working perfectly and I can use the suspend to RAM functionnality.

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  • Good job! The only option I had was to remove nVidia graphics card.
    – rnso
    Commented Mar 24, 2023 at 18:01

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