On Sat, 23 Sep 2006 07:16:31 -0700, Paul Dickson wrote: > 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. Have said the above and having a lot of updates applied, including a new 2.6.18 kernel, I decided to test suspend/resume once again. Guess what. It now works! I've suspended twice and hibernated once already. This is under 2.6.18-1.2689.fc6. -Paul -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list