Subj : Re: Linux on Dell D600 - occasional S3 waking problems
To   : comp.os.linux.portable,comp.os.linux
From : Jeppe R. Andersen
Date : Thu Dec 23 2004 12:30 pm

Hi,

You may find the description on
http://www.hep.phy.cam.ac.uk/~andersen/fedora2latitude600.html useful. I
have suspend to ram (S3) working on Fedora Core 3, just without the DRI
graphic acceleration.

Cheers,

Jeppe

On Sat, 02 Oct 2004 15:39:33 +0000, David wrote:

> Hi everyone,
> 
> I wonder if someone could help me? I have been setting up Linux (Fedora 
> Core 2) on my brothers Dell Inspiron D600.
> 
> After installing FC2 (which went fine) I recompiled a patched kernel by 
> following the instructions at http://www.loria.fr/~thome/d600/. I have 
> also installed the intel wireless driver, which is working fine (though 
> I did have to write a script to bring the interface up properly).
> 
> S3 sleep (suspend to RAM) does work now, BUT sometimes (not very often) 
> the computer fails to wake up from sleep. Oh, the other strange thing is 
> that when the computer wakes it seems to get stuck on the initial text 
> screen (about restarting tasks) until you press a key on the keyboard. 
> Then it continues without a problem. _Sometimes_ though when I wake it 
> up (open the lid) the screen just stays black. It does come out of sleep 
> mode, but doesn't do anything else. It's unpingable and doesn't seem to 
> respond to anything except powering off (by holding down the power button)
> 
> Does anyone have any ideas of what might be causing this? I can't seem 
> to find any pattern to it.
> 
> kernel: 2.6.8.1 with patches from http://www.loria.fr/~thome/d600/
> Fedora Core 2
> Dell Inspiron D600 (1024x768 resolution)
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -- David

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