Fedora 18 - Disastrous experience

[Timothy Murphy]

Andras Simon wrote:

>> 1. Sleep problem.
>> When re-awaking from Sleep, whether that was started
>> from the f-menu or by closing the lid,
>> about 60% of the time the screen starts flashing on and off
>> each couple of seconds, and the machine has to be stopped
>> by pressing the power button, and re-started.
> 
> Does /var/log/pm-suspend.log say something useful (unlikely, but you
> never know).
> Maybe compare what you see in it when resume works and when it doesn't.
> That may give you a clue.

Thanks for the response.
Unfortunately, according to /var/log/pm-suspend all is fine,
even after the flashing episode.

> Also: is this Sleep supposed to be suspend or hibernate? You could try
> the other and see if it works (and is good enough for you).

I take it Sleep means hibernate.
I already found there were problems under Fedora 17 
coming out of hibernation.
But I'll try it again ...

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