Resume on a Suspended Lap-top

[Karl Larsen]

Paul Johnson wrote:
> On 7/3/07, Karl Larsen <k5di at zianet.com> wrote:
>> Karl Larsen wrote:
>> >
>> >    I hit suspend on my F7 laptop and it did go to sleep. Alas I have
>> > no idea how to wake it up. I found no docs yet but need to look at
>> > /usr/share/doc/ perhaps.
>
> dear Karl
>
> this is a widespread problem with FC7.  I have it on my Dell d820 and
> i have concluded that I must not suspend until th eproblem is fixed.
> People will point y ou to a site where you can test quirks in
> pm-suspend, but I tried that and it did not  help.  If you go to
> http://bugzilla.redhat.com, and search for "suspend resume" you wil
> see a ton of bugs,      some with many many informative posts.
>
> Today in bugzilla I read about a very promising hint.  Many people who
> are more sophisticated than I am have gone to the trouble of
> recompiling the kernel over and over to isolate the problem, and they
> link it to a component "hpet", high performance time sync or something
> like that.   On my Dell, the problem is that the sysstem suspends,
> buit it does not wake up.  After putting a kernel flag hpet=disable in
> grub, then the system almost resumes.  It wakes up, the screen comes
> to life, and it apears OK, except that the keyboard does not work.
> That's a sign they are on the right track, as far as I can tell.  Some
> people have posted that the suspend bug has been fixed in some kernels
> they are testing for FC8.
>
> Unless you are compulsive like me, and want to waste two or three days
> trying half-assed fixes posted by everybody and his uncle, I urge you
> to stop and wait.  You have a widespread problem and many people are
> fixing it.
>
> If you want to keep trying, you will have to post a lot more info.
> Brand of alptop, kind ovf vido card, kind of network, what config
> steps have you taken to deal with this.  Htere is a new suspend
> framework in place now,  pm-suspend, and its package "pm-utils" is
> apparently missing some important files,      like vbetool  There is a
> new thing  /etc/moodules.d where troublesome modules can be isolated.
>
> Anyway, it is a hard problem and I've wasted a lot of time on it, and
> I'd suggest to you to be patient and      monitor the posts in this
> list as well as the bugzila. .   I would bet the bottom dollar that,
> when it does work, there will be an outpouring of relief and thanks
> messages.
>
> Sorry for the typing.  I'm using an Nokia N800 "internet tablet" and a
>     protable key board, and the print is so small I can barely make
> it out.
>
> good luck
> pj
>
Hi pj, thanks for the update. I will just wait for some bug work. I must 
say that the Suspend works perfect. Now the work on un-suspend can begin 
:-)

I will be careful not to hit Suspend again.

Karl