I bought a new Dell Inspiron 8200 and have been installing SuSE 8.0. I have an issue with apm -s, suspend to ram.
The problem is that the machine appears to suspend to RAM but will not wake up again (I know the feeling).

I have tried putting the drive in an old 8100 on which suspend does work with another drive. Same problem therefore not related to BIOS ?

I have tried disabling DMA, no effect.

I have tried it from init 2 with same effect therefore ruling out the Xserver ?

What should I try next.

I've seen this option a dozen or so times compiling kernels, on the top level of "make menuconfig" there is a special option under "Processor Type and Features" for Dell Laptop support that is specific to the 8000 series. Now this is primarily for fan and cpu heat management and whatnot, but between that and trying out the newer ACPI and APM available under 2.4.19, that might knock out your problem.

Just an idea, I had problems with suspend on my i1400 Thinkpad all the way up through the 2.4.x series until 2.4.18 when it magically started blinking right back on from a sleep; before it took a good 30 seconds and then display went kazoo.

Cheers,

Finegan

Hmm two years using linux and so far I had managed to avoid the kernel. However apm is one of the main reasons that a laptop is so mobile so I guess I'll have to have a go!

Thanks