is suspend broken?

[Peter Langfelder]

On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 8:52 PM, Bill Davidsen <davidsen at tmr.com> wrote:
>
> If I might offer one other thought, even with modeset, I believe changing to a
> text console and suspending from there will work to resume and to change back to
> X later. Someone showed me that as the only way their laptop worked right.
>
> And if you are happy with nomodeset you don't care, do you?  ;-)

Yup, I don't miss anything. I'm not a very discriminating user as far
as graphics go, so the only difference I notice is the rather
primitive but utterly insignificant booting progress indicator.

I'm not sure suspending from a text console would satisfy me... I
presume it would entail killing all X applications? The primary reason
why I use suspend instead of shutdown-restart is (of course) that I
want my running applications to remain running when the machine wakes
up again.

Peter