does your video resume after a suspend to ram with kernel-2.6.15-1.1823_FC4

[Paul Johnson]

Is suspend & resume working on your laptop?

I was told that one of the goals in FC5 is to make laptop
suspend/restore work.  I've been testing with various kernels and have
been having the same problem since 2.6.13.  The system will suspend,
but when I resume, the video stays dark.  This is happening now with
the testing kernel-2.6.15-1.1823_FC4

http://people.redhat.com/davej/kernels/Fedora/FC4/RPMS.kernel/

I want to know if other laptop users have a similar problem?  I've
asked in the gnome-power-management list and they say there's nothing
they can do about the problem if it is in the kernel, and that's where
I  think it is. Here's why: the laptop stays dark even if I suspend
from runlevel 3 (never starting X or gdm at all).  I think that means
the problem does not lie with the Nvidia X driver.

This system I'm testing is mostly FC4, but it has udev and hal updated
from the g-p-m site and it has the kernel from Dave J's site.

Oh, one more question. I got desperate enough to try the Suspend2
kernel patch and the hibernate program.  That did work  in "suspend to
disk" mode. However, I did not see any value in that because the
system took just about as long to restart from a suspend to disk as it
took to just reboot from scratch.  However, when I set it to suspend
to ram, I got the same dark video.

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Paul E. Johnson
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University of Kansas