Greetings fellow MNT’ers, the 6.5 kernel seems to have fixed the regression affecting standby on the Reform. I’d like to get a bit more data on the matter and so I’ve set up a poll.
Are you on 6.5 and have you tested suspend? What are your results?
For me it has been rock solid and reliable. I’m on about 32 successful attempts now.
I just upgraded and tried suspend on 6.5.0. The initial suspend/resume worked fine, subsequent attempts appear to start the suspend process but immediately resume (i.e. I get bounced right back to the sway session I started from and the Reform does not suspend).
Which is better than the device appearing to hang on resume as it had been in the past, but it’s still not fully functional for me.
Looking at related discussions, it looks like the most difference in behavior comes from NVMe. I’m wondering how situation will change with new CPU modules; recent problems with M2 adapter are a bit worrying.
Unfortunately I don’t know how to start debugging this.
I have found that if I have Libreoffice open it can trigger resume from suspend issues. I think this has to do with changes to a document being made but not saved. Libreoffice has a file lock and this most likely prevents the NVME from entering standby properly. If I remember to save the document before suspending, so far this has seemed to not cause crashes. I am currently on resume number 47 now and going strong.
Fingers crossed that this is the issue I was having and that things just keep working. Even if not, this is reliable enough for me.
I haven’t had any issues resuming after a suspend on 6.5 but I have noticed that power saving isn’t that great. If reform lasts ~6 hours idle it can suspend of ~12 hours.
Yes, suspend on the Reform effectively halves power consumption. Room for improvement sure, but being able to take the Reform off the charger and go to work and back with it, and not have it die, is the virtue of suspend in this case.
Oh yeah huge improvement for sure. I just tend to have laptops floating around in suspend and pickup whichever one has the most charge. I’d like to see the Reform reach that state one day.