Laptop support in F10

[Roger Grosswiler]

> Roger Grosswiler wrote:
>>> On Thursday 27 November 2008 09:56:19 Mike Chambers wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Thu, 2008-11-27 at 11:06 +1300, Fastie wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On F10 Final nothing work with buttons or when I close the lid. The
>>>>> lid close did work after one kernel update but was soon gone after the
>>>>> next update
>>>>> I have tried the command line and it did work but no easy way when you
>>>>> are running around..
>>>>>
> ...
>> - choose via Gnome-Power-Manager:
>>
>> -- suspend
>> -- hibernate
>>
>> when i hibernate, i fall back to screen lock (no hibernate)
>> when i suspend, i get nice graphics (i think m$ called it bluescreen) and have to
>> reboot
>>
>> or am i wrong?
>>
>
> A general comment: Laptop hardware and powermanagement isn't simple.
> Most hardware has its own bugs and quirks in this area and need its own
> hacks and workarounds. "Laptop support in F10" is generally fine. IMHO
> it is better than ever. But it might be broken for your hardware. You
> should file a bug report - or try to find an existing one with exactly
> the same problem. Testing on other hardware does not say much.
>
> (FWIW: suspend/resume doesn't work on my workstation with ATI and kernel
> modeset, but with nomodeset it works great, both in text and X -
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=467429)
>
> /Mads
>

FYI:
Very interesting, indeed. If i shutdown my computer, but select hibernate instead of
power off, it works...so my issues seems to be from gnome-power-manager.

Roger