Restore from Suspend

[David Timms]

Dave Cross wrote:
> On 11/13/06, Tanguy Eric <eric.tanguy at univ-nantes.fr> wrote:
>> Le lundi 13 novembre 2006 à 19:25 +0000, Dave Cross a écrit :
>> > I have Philips Freevents X51 laptop (I know, pretty rare - I think
>> > they sold about 3!) and I'm having a lot of trouble with the restore
>> > from suspend functionality.
>> >
>> > Under FC5, it worked about 10% of the time. The rest of the time the
>> > hard disk light would flash a few times and you could see that power
>> > was going to the screen (as it got lighter) but X wouldn't resume and
>> > I'd have to power off and reboot.
>> >
>> > I was hoping that it would get better with FC6, but it's actually got
>> > worse. Now it never works. And when it doesn't work I no longer see
>> > the screen get slightly brighter. I just get a couple of minutes of
>> > disk activity and then it just sits there doing nothing. And I have to
>> > power off and reboot.
>> >
>> > I know it's a rare laptop, so I'll need to roll up my sleeves and send
>> > some detailed diagnostics to the developers in order to get round
>> > this, but can someone suggest where I might start? Who should I
>> > contact to start investigating this problem?
>> >
>> Which video card do you have ? Which video driver do you use ?
> 
> It's an Intel Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML Express Graphics Controller,
> using the i810 driver.
Can you still ssh into the machine while it is in this state ?

I noticed resume on mine got my desktop back, and because the mains 
wasn't plugged in as it resumed, system now running on AC popup faded 
in-out but mouse and keyboard are not operational. So different effects 
seen here.

DaveT.