Suspend/sleep/hibernate on Dell i8200 with FC2

[Ed Hill]

On Wed, 2004-06-16 at 17:22, D. D. Brierton wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-06-16 at 21:39, D. D. Brierton wrote:
> 
> > I guess I could just try shutting the lid and seeing what happens!
> 
> Well *something* happened, but not what I was expecting. The machine
> didn't suspend -- the PCMCIA Wi-Fi card remained on and I could see
> network activity from the little flashing green activity indicator, I
> could hear some disk activity, and the fan remained on. However, the
> screen did blank, and when I opened the lid again it was a bit of a
> struggle to get it to come on again (had to hit CRT/LCD a couple of
> times, and ctrl-alt-F1 ctrl-alt-F7). When it did come on there was some
> unpleasant flickering. As I was unsure of what other things the ACPI lid
> event might have done I ended up rebooting.

Though I have a different laptop, this does sounds familiar to my FC2
suspend experiences.  See:

  http://eh3.com/thinkpad_A22p.html

for more details.

Ed

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