On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 07:58:53AM +0000, mwood77@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > Thanks for the ideas. I did a little more playing around and found that > neither ctrl-c or the apm -s & work. For some reason, it's as though my > command interpreter is just out to lunch. > If I do manage to switch to another terminal session (happened a couple > times, but not always) using <ctrl>+<alt>+F2, I can log in as root but > cannot execute anything. Same problem. It seems the kernel isn't > awake and working or something. > Do you think I have to re-compile the kernel for my particular laptop > support? I know Dell can be weird about this stuff. If so, how do I > go about downloading the source through yum? I don't think you need to recompile the kernel. I also have an Inspiron 8100 and never had problems with RHx, FC1-FC3. But then I have no need to suspend to ram or disk (when I am finished working or have to leave I just shutdown, works perfectly all the time :)) I did get 'apm -S' (capital 's') working at one time under APM, but never used it. 'apm -s' never worked. I have not tried suspending to ram under ACPI yet. By the way which BIOS have you got. I have BIOS A14. (there seems to be a BIOS A15 also). A14 has restricted, but working, ACPI functionality. I have Ubuntu Linux's 'Warty' version on the i8100 at the moment using ACPI. Judging from the instructions in the wiki and support sections of the Ubuntu web site you *might* get 'suspend to ram' working under either or both APM and ACPI on the i8100. Have a look. For 'suspend to disk' you would have to recompile the FC3 kernel to enable this first. But you will need some sort of script for a clean restore of all functionality after suspend I suspect. Alexander
