Anyone been trying suspend on recent kernels?

[Jim Cornette]

David Timms wrote:
> 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).

This accidental entry into suspend mode happened to me also. My 
sister-in-law partially shut the lid on my HP Pavilion. Fortunately, I 
did not have a lot of apps running at the time.

> 
> 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).

I did not wait very long after the hitting the power button for wakeup. 
I did note an fsck when the computer was reset forcefully.

> 
> 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!) ?

Disabling just the backlighting would be ideal default behavior. Though 
my sister-in-law knows better than to shut the lid now.

Jim
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