Resume on a Suspended Lap-top

[Ian Malone]

Paul Johnson wrote:
> On 7/3/07, Karl Larsen <k5di at zianet.com> wrote:
>> Karl Larsen wrote:
>> >
>> >    I hit suspend on my F7 laptop and it did go to sleep. Alas I have
>> > no idea how to wake it up. I found no docs yet but need to look at
>> > /usr/share/doc/ perhaps.
> 

> Today in bugzilla I read about a very promising hint.  Many people who
> are more sophisticated than I am have gone to the trouble of
> recompiling the kernel over and over to isolate the problem, and they
> link it to a component "hpet", high performance time sync or something
> like that.   On my Dell, the problem is that the sysstem suspends,
> buit it does not wake up.  After putting a kernel flag hpet=disable in
> grub, then the system almost resumes.  It wakes up, the screen comes
> to life, and it apears OK, except that the keyboard does not work.
> That's a sign they are on the right track, as far as I can tell.  Some
> people have posted that the suspend bug has been fixed in some kernels
> they are testing for FC8.
> 

Thanks for the tip, this has got suspend working for me
(with ipw3945 and desktop effects on a Sony if anyone cares).

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imalone