Hendrik Strydom wrote: : On Thu, 2006-08-31 at 11:09 -0700, Dean S. Messing wrote: : > If so I'd like to hear from you. : > : > I will shortly be installing FC5 on my M70 which I have : > not been able to effectively use because of lack of Suspend. : > : > I don't care if it is "to disk" or "to memory". As long as I can : > put the thing to sleep (with X running) and come back and have : > all the many things I had going on still going on, I'll be happy. : > : > Thanks for your responses. : > : I have no recent experience with Dell, but do have a Compaq V2000 : (Turion processor, ATI graphics, running X86_64 FC5). Software suspend : using acpitool from extras worked well till the fedora kernel got to : 2.6.17.*, and not since. : I have confirmed that it works with the newest stock kernel, 2.6.17.11, : so hopefully it may work again with the next Fedora kernel update. : FC5 originally shipped with kernel 2.6.15-1.2054_FC5, which could : suspend on my hardware. This may not be relevant to your hardware at : all, but try to suspend before your first update, to eliminate : regression in the kernel as an issue. (This will not work if you use a : respin CD/DVD). : You probably now this, but it may work better if you do a chvt before : and after suspending, and you may need specific kernel options. Thanks Hendrik for the information and suggestions. I'll try to suspend when I first install, after updating with everything new except the kernel. What is a "respin" CD/DVD? New term for me. I was unaware of the `chvt' command, though on my Year 2000 Dell Inspiron 5050 (on which suspend has always worked flawlessly via APM) I have always had to manually change to a root VT and turn off the network and PCMCIA adapter before issuing `apm --suspend' to prevent a hanging upon `resume'. I just tried `chvt' on my FC5 desktop and there appears to be a bug: It takes almost 3 seconds to actually change to a VT, and when I come back to X, there are a jillion Commandline prompts in the terminal window in which I executed the command. It was as though my cat had sat down on the "enter" key. also `chvt' only appears to work from the root account. Anyway, I'll keep your suggestions in mind. Dean
