Comment 84 for bug 510004

I have what sounds like a similar problem on my Thinkpad T41, which has an ATI RV250 GPU. This is 32 bit Lucid, upgraded from Karmic. Suspend/resume worked fine in Karmic. I'm using the default open-source ATI drivers. This is a really old GPU by the way.

Hibernate/resume works fine in Lucid. Suspend seems to work fine, both when closing the lid, and clicking the Sleep icon. When I resume, either by opening the lid or pressing the power button, everything seems to come back up, but initially the screen is blank, though I can tell the backlight is on. Then, over the course of a few seconds, a strange marble-like pattern starts to emerge on the screen, and it gets progressively brighter and brighter over the course of a few minutes, until the whole screen is full white. There's no mouse cursor visible. I can't seem to switch to another TTY. If I remember correctly, the fan speed stays pretty high, so the cpu might be under some load. I think the wireless indicator turns on. There's the normal occasional hard drive activity, and I'm pretty sure one time I punched in my password, and by dead reckoning managed to click the system menu, and then the "switch off" item, and got the system to shut down normally. Otherwise, I have no choice but to do a hard power off.

Seeing as I don't have an nvidia gpu, should I open a new bug, or can someone point me to an existing bug?