How can I explore what is causing my laptop to not come out of suspend properly when the lid is opened?

[ronys]

You might want to check the Lenovo support website to see if they've a
BIOS/driver update for your model that addresses this issue.

Rony

On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 9:17 PM, Michael Shiloh <michaelshiloh1010 at gmail.com
> wrote:

> For years I had been hibernating my laptop (Lenova T60 and now T61)
> instead of shutting down, and of course opening the lid did nothing until I
> pressed the power button. Besides the long amount of time it would take to
> come out of hibernation, this SEEMED to work fine, although sometimes I was
> presented with a login screen instead of an unlock screen, suggesting that
> I was booting up fresh rather than simply coming out of hibernation.
>
> Recently I've learned that suspend is quite reliable and of course much
> faster. I suspend either automatically on lid closure, or manually, and
> come out of suspend automatically when I open the lid.
>
> Occasionally, coming out of suspend fails. The power indicator light is
> on, as well as bluetooth and wifi. Wifi is even blinking occasionally, but
> I don't know what this means. The disc activity light is off.
>
> The only keys that are recognized are the "NmLk" and the little lamp that
> lights up the keyboard. I suspect these are handled by a microcontroller
> running the keyboard and not the main processor.
>
> Every other key and key combination I can think of is ignored, e.g. "Ctrl"
> "Alt" F1 etc. to get a console login.
>
> I have tried closing and reopening the lid, applying and removing external
> power, and pressing every single key, along with every combination of
> "Shift" "Ctrl" and "Alt", as well as the blue "Fn" button. Other than the
> numlock and keyboard lamp, nothing has any effect.
>
> I have tried both hibernating automatically on lid closure, and
> hibernating manually prior to lid closure. The problem seems worse when I
> hibernate automatically, but this is not a terribly scientific conclusion.
>
> I realize now that I may have been seeing the same problem when coming out
> of hibernation.
>
> I recognize that the problem may not be been caused by a problem starting
> up, but rather, due to some error while hibernating or suspending.
>
> What can I do to debug this? Any suggestions, comments, and ideas would be
> appreciated
>
> Michael
>
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