Anyone been trying suspend on recent kernels?

[David Timms]

Andy Burns wrote:

> After "nearly" having some success with pm-suspend a few weeks ago, I 
> find that in recent rawhide kernels my system crashes at pm-suspend
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=178339
> Anyone else been having any more success (or similar issues) with 
> suspend lately?

andy: I have just inadvertently tried it out today. Machine is a HP 
compaq nx9000 (ati) notebook, with lid switch. I meant to leave the 
notebook running (quite a few apps-xmms etc) overnight, but closed the 
lid - which I noticed turned the screen black (I though backlight off).

I noticed in the morning that the power LED was flashing slowly, 
indicating some sort of suspend. Opening the lid not cause the machine 
to come back to life, nor did pressing any buttons. Pressing the power 
switch causes the notebook to go to a powered state (power led on), and 
the fan starts, but no disk activity nor image is visible on the screen. 
After ten minutes, still no action. Holding the power button for forced 
off, and then restarting seems to restart (normal boot) without to much 
problem(I think I noticed fsck).

Do you happen to know if there is a GUI option to control what the lid 
switch does (ie just backlight off would be better for me!) ?