I found the quirks page to be a waste of time. The out-of-the-box F7 never resumed from suspend on my Dell D820 latitude. No matter what I tried, it did not resume, no matter what video driver. Then magically, with a kernel update, it did work! All was fine for a while. Then, just as magically, with a kernel update and or xorg update, the resume quit bringing the video back. The last kernel I remember working was 2.6.22.1-41.fc7. It quit resuming from suspend about 3 kernels after that, possibly 2.6.22-4.65. About the same time, there were video driver updates, but somehow I doubt they are at the heart of my trouble because I've tried xorg's nv and the commercial driver from Nvidia and no success. It is the same situation I was in There are deep problems in the kernel that people are working on all the time, and they have co-incidental effects on suspend/resume. I spend a lot of time in the fedora-development list and found many experts, all of whom had good advice and reasons why suspend does or does not work at any given moment. Unless you are willing to spend a lot of time debugging, forget it. FOllow the manufacturer's advice, which is DO NOT use suspend. Suspend is dangerous becuase, if you move your computer about, it may inadvertently turn itself on. Use it only when the machine is not in the bag. I swear, this is the manufacturer's advice, although many people ignore it. If you are willing to spend some time, here is a way to start. When you are on the laptop, make sure you are able to log onto it from another system with a program like ssh. Then suspend the laptop and resume it. Then try to log in again. If it does work, it proves you have only the simple problem of waking up the video card. If that is the problem, then maybe the advice in the quirks page will help you. Maybe not. If you cannot log in again, it means your system may not have woken up at all, and that is a worse problem that you should report in the bugzilla.redhat.com. They need to know details on your machine and the kernel you are using at the moment. And, yes, I'm top posting because I like it. Or gmail likes it. pj On 10/1/07, Michael <4magnell@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, 2007-10-01 at 09:42 -0400, Matthew Saltzman wrote: > > On Sun, 2007-09-30 at 23:47 -0500, Michael wrote: > > > I was hoping this would be as easy as the touchpad fix. After some > > > searching I'm confused instead of ignorant, no going back now. The > > > suggestions for fixing this vary pretty good from adding kernel lines to > > > using only free drivers or even installing programs. Anyone have a good > > > understanding about what is causing the problem on my fedora 7 with > > > model laptop-hp pavilion ze4427wm? > > > > >From what I can gather, the place to start is here: > > > > http://people.freedesktop.org/~hughsient/quirk/ > > > > Good luck! > > Thanks you, I will look at that soon. > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > -- Paul E. Johnson Professor, Political Science 1541 Lilac Lane, Room 504 University of Kansas
