Hardy and fglrx – suspend issues resolved!

This title is actually a bit misleading, but still quite true.

As it turns out, the bug appears to lie not in the fglrx driver, as previously thought, or in the Gnome Power Manager, also as previously thought, but in Compiz/Fusion. I can ascertain this because I recently installed the most current version of Compiz/Fusion from git sources using directions here.

This was four days ago. I continued to use the sleeparound.sh script I had written, until one day I mis-clicked the launcher, and shut the lid. I thought to myself “Oh, Crap!”, as I had a few things open. So, I let it sleep, and opened it back up, and voila! It asked for my password!

I couldn’t believe it, so, I shut the lid, let it sleep, and opened it, and again was greeted with the password prompt. I was so excited that I did this about five more times, and said “Look, honey, it works!” She smiled and nodded, but was not overly thrilled.

PLEASE NOTE: Before I upgraded compiz, I installed the proprietary ATI driver with directions from cchtml and customized my /etc/default/acpi-support file as I did previously.

All in all, I basically over-rode the Ubuntu-installed packages, but it seems to have resolved the issues I was having. Prior to upgrading compiz, I was still experiencing the suspend issue with the proprietary ATI driver.

Hopefully, it won’t be long before the versions that I have are in the Ubuntu repos!

/cs