FC3 Suspend Problem on Laptop
Alexander Volovics
awol at home.nl
Wed Dec 29 10:52:08 UTC 2004
On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 07:58:53AM +0000, mwood77 at frontiernet.net wrote:
> Thanks for the ideas. I did a little more playing around and found that
> neither ctrl-c or the apm -s & work. For some reason, it's as though my
> command interpreter is just out to lunch.
> If I do manage to switch to another terminal session (happened a couple
> times, but not always) using <ctrl>+<alt>+F2, I can log in as root but
> cannot execute anything. Same problem. It seems the kernel isn't
> awake and working or something.
> Do you think I have to re-compile the kernel for my particular laptop
> support? I know Dell can be weird about this stuff. If so, how do I
> go about downloading the source through yum?
I don't think you need to recompile the kernel.
I also have an Inspiron 8100 and never had problems with RHx, FC1-FC3.
But then I have no need to suspend to ram or disk (when I am finished
working or have to leave I just shutdown, works perfectly all the time :))
I did get 'apm -S' (capital 's') working at one time under APM,
but never used it. 'apm -s' never worked. I have not tried suspending
to ram under ACPI yet.
By the way which BIOS have you got. I have BIOS A14. (there seems to
be a BIOS A15 also). A14 has restricted, but working, ACPI functionality.
I have Ubuntu Linux's 'Warty' version on the i8100 at the moment
using ACPI. Judging from the instructions in the wiki and support sections
of the Ubuntu web site you *might* get 'suspend to ram' working under either
or both APM and ACPI on the i8100. Have a look.
For 'suspend to disk' you would have to recompile the FC3 kernel to
enable this first. But you will need some sort of script for a clean
restore of all functionality after suspend I suspect.
Alexander
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