Hey guys, looking for some direction.
I installed Bluefin on my wife’s older laptop (Dell Inspiron 17R 7720), and while everything works great, she’s reported that the laptop won’t resume from suspend. I spent some time trying to troubleshoot, and I can’t figure it out.
For context, I installed the Bluefin version for Intel, although, this laptop has an Nvidia GT650 card built-in, too. Would it have been better if I downloaded the Nvidia version?
I’m aware that Nvidia has issues with resuming from suspend in Bluefin (reported HERE), but I don’t know if it’s related.
Another thread suggested enabling Wayland Windowing System in the flatpaks permission app, but doesn’t seem to help.
Anything else I should try? I don’t have 100% direct access to the laptop, since she works on it during the day, so my time to fiddle with it is limited 
Wouldn‘t be Linux without Sleep issues. I have zero idea what causes this, but I‘ve had it one or two times and it always fixed itself after some time/updating. In my (purely personal) experience, fresh installs are more prone to it.
Yeah, I’m hoping it will work itself out. If it were my computer, I wouldn’t be as bothered, but my wife’s? … ouch.
Would it be worth trying to rebase to an Nvidia image?
It seems this type of laptop configuration is a “hybrid”, so it has a discreet Nvidia card + the built-in Intel one. I wonder if having those Nvidia drivers will make a difference.
If you‘re on Nvidia hardware, you should use the Nvidia images, yeah😄
Though it may be different for that specific card.
I frequently have this problem on my NVIDIA bazzite desktop system as well. I am using the NVIDIA image on that system. It is intermittent but it does happen often enough. I will add that when I was on arch linux, I had the same issue but it wasn’t intermittent it was every time it went to sleep. Sorry, I don’t have a solution for you except maybe rebase to NVIDIA as suggested before. Hopefully the older card is more stable than my 30 series desktop.
Thanks for the reply.
I ended up just putting Bluefin on a spare laptop, so she’ll use that one.
I’ll experiment a little more with this laptop, but my bigger challenge might be the desktop I keep as a secondary PC, which does use an older Nvidia card. That one is in sleep/suspend/hibernate for 90% of the time, so this feature must work properly on that PC, so I hope the Nvidia image works without issues. I’ll fiddle with these more when I have time.
So, here’s an update, and I’m not sure what to think!
As I mentioned in my previous post, I ended up installing Bluefin on another spare laptop (Asus Vivobook 15 X540UA) for her to use. Clean install, no dual boot.
Most of the time, it will suspend and wake from suspend without any issues. However, it seems that if it’s suspended for a long time (i.e. overnight), there’s a chance it won’t turn on again without a hard reboot.
I did end of reinstalling Bluefin with the NVIDIA package on the previous laptop, and it never seemed to acknowledge that it could detect the discreet graphics card. So, it ran as well as it did before, but I haven’t used it long enough to say whether it continues to have suspend/resume issues.
So, I’m still having issues with suspend/resume on my wife’s current laptop, and I don’t know if it will eventually work itself out, or if I should keep digging. I’m in one of those, “you don’t know what you don’t know” situations, and it seems like troubleshooting linux suspend issues can take you 100 different ways 