is suspend broken?

[Peter Langfelder]

On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 10:05 AM, Kevin J. Cummings
<cummings at kjchome.homeip.net> wrote:
> When I bought my laptop, it was shipped with a cubbi-suspend2 kernel and
> the fglrx driver and ran under FC6.i386.  suspend worked for me on the
> shipped configuration.
>
> When I upgraded to F9.x86_64, I no longer needed the cubbi-suspend2
> kernel (now called tuxonice), and suspend worked really well.  I was
> still using the fglrx video driver.
>
> Now that I'm running F11.x86_64, there is no fglrx (or catalyst) driver
> for my video, and suspend no longer works for me.  There are no errors
> listed in my pm-suspend.log, in fact, the last thing in this file claims
> that it is "performing suspend".  However, my system never powers down
> and never enters the suspend mode (with the flashing power LED
> indicator).  It remains powered on.  The only way to get the system back
> is to lean on the power button until the system powers down.  The power
> LED is then off.  The only way to power back up is to touch the power
> button again, and after which the system goes through a complete cold
> start and reboots from scratch.  When it is properly suspended, I should
> be able to touch "any" key to resume from suspend back to a running system.
>
> Can anyone please tell me what (obvious thing) I'm missing?
>

Not sure if this will help, but you can try. I have a Lenovo T60 with
some ATI graphics card and the standard radeon driver. Suspend only
works if the system is booted with a nomodeset option. I don't quite
recall what went wrong when trying suspend on a modesetting kernel,
but it never worked.

BTW, as far as I remember, when suspended, the machine only wakes up
when the laptop lid is opened - pressing keys does not wake it up.

HTH,

Peter