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

[Dave Jones]

On Sat, Sep 23, 2006 at 09:16:58AM +0100, José Matos wrote:
 > On Friday 22 September 2006 22:30, Dave Jones wrote:
 > >
 > > Not really. If we held up the release for every machine that didn't
 > > suspend/resume, we'd never ship anything.
 > >
 > > The only real blocker items wrt to the kernel are
 > >
 > > "doesn't install"
 > > "doesn't boot"
 > > "can't download updates"
 > > "corrupts data"
 > 
 >   That is fair. I am curious though, I have the same experience here, several 
 > of our laptops stopped suspending/hibernating properly after 2.6.16. Just for 
 > curiosity, what changed in this area and what needs to be done to fix it?
 
Not entirely sure, though there has been some positive feedback
that 2.6.18 fixes the issues a lot of people saw in 2.6.17.
There still remain some that are not working though :-/

	Dave