For anyone who has a similar issue like me, it turned out the nvme ssd i was using didn't agree with the notebook when it came to sleep states. I swapped it with an WD Blue SN570 and now everything works as expected.

For anyone who has a similar issue like me, it turned out the nvme ssd i was using didn't agree with the notebook when it came to sleep states. I swapped it with an WD Blue SN570 and now everything works as expected.

@george dmesg.txt

@george i tried both armbian and Ubuntu images flashed to emmc only and have the problem, if i suspend from menu and closing the lid. The power light stays on and the Laptop doesn't respond to keys. anything else i should try?

@george So with the suspend issue, any idea? It would be really useful for the laptop to be able to suspend. Otherwise i currently have to set it to turn off on closing the Lid.

@george currently i have the home folders on an nvme, the rest is on the emmc
Also sometimes it wont boot and be stuck at a blinking underscore, from reeding it seems that both my issues could be videodriver issues

Edit: So the boot issue was a problem with my disk setup, and i did fix it, but i still can't get the laptop to suspend.

@george when i close the lid the light stays on and the screen turns off. after that it doesn’t respond to the power button, so i have to forcefully shut it down by keeping the button pressed

@george i can confirm that with the latest ubuntu image the laptop will not wake even after pushing the power button

@george thanks for the answers, it seems suspend isn’t working on my machine, as in it doesn’t wake up again.

Also what are the future prospects for the Cool Pi architecture? Will it stay on these custom images or are there plans to get it to boot more general distributions?

Additionally does the cm5 not support sleep?

i have got the CM5 laptop that came with Ubuntu but i cant seem to install it on an nvme drive? Also when the laptop page mentioned uefi boot what does that mean exactly, can i install generic uefi arm-linux versions?