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