FC6 and laptop suspend/resume: should be a high priority bug

[Paul Reilly]

Paul Johnson wrote:
> The last kernel on which my Dell D820 latitude would suspend & resume
> was 2.6.16.  For the last two months or so---all of th 2.6.17
> versions--have failed.  The systems suspend, but don't resume.
> 
> There are plenty of reports like this in bugzilla.redhat.com.  My
> opinion is that FC6 should not be released as final until the problem
> is addressed.  What do you think?
> 

I would like to start testing suspend/resume in Rawhide but I have to 
confess that I am at the very beginning.  I've discerned from googling 
that it is still pretty much a script based feature, i.e. one must write 
scripts to have your laptop suspend or hibernate and then associate 
those scripts with events.  This is somewhat shocking to me.  I expected 
that a distro would automagically configure a system to DTRT from the 
getgo.  At least do something like what XP does.  Au contraire 
apparently.  Is there any reference material available to read so that I 
might be a little more intelligent and helpful in testing suspend/resume 
functionality?

And to address Paul's question, FWIW: it doesn't much matter to me when 
good laptop support is in FC, just that it gets in and stays in.  It 
certainly does appear to be long overdue functionality.

Thanks,

-pmr