On Fri, 22 Sep 2006 13:12:14 -0500, Paul Johnson wrote:
The last kernel on which my Dell D820 latitude would suspend &
resume
was 2.6.16. For the last two months or so---all of th 2.6.17
versions--have failed. The systems suspend, but don't resume.
There are plenty of reports like this in
bugzilla.redhat.com. My
opinion is that FC6 should not be released as final until the problem
is addressed. What do you think?
Time flies... The last Fedora kernel that suspend worked for me was
created in late March (kernel-2.6.15-1.2064_FC6). This is not a Fedora
problem, per se, but a generic kernel problem. I attempted a git bisect
of the kernel code, but bisected code resulted in non-compilable kernels
before I got very far. 2.6.16 works, 2.6.17 does not.
I have become used to suspend not working so I don't test it very often.
I was quite surprised when I tested suspend in late February that it
actually worked. I was a bit bummed when it stopped, but I was not too
bothered by it (my work pattern avoids it because it didn't work).
I think the problem has to do with the SATA suspend/resume code. My
notebook has a SATA controller which is connected to a PATA HD (Dell
Inspiron 6000).
With it looking like the SATA suspend/resume will be going into 2.6.19
very soon, hopefully this problem will finally be laid to rest.
-Paul