[ale] Suspend on the Dell Inspiron 8200

[Dow Hurst]

My Dell Latitude CPt 333 under SuSE 7.1 would suspend with no problem.  
I had repartitioned and setup one root partition with ReiserFS before I 
ever understood what the strange looking partitioning by Dell meant.  
The suspend worked even directly from inside X.  Maybe Iwas only going 
to sleep and not doing a true suspend to disk.  Otherwise, where would 
the info have been written?  So, sleep mode worked great and suspend 
just was tied to sleep mode.  I know I've let the laptop sleep for 
several days and it still woke up which made me wonder what it was 
doing.  Remember to check the Linux Laptop page for info if you haven't yet.


Here is a useful link on the 8200:
http://www.astro.umd.edu/~teuben/linux/laptop/dell8200.html

Another note on Dell laptops.  I noticed that fan control is built into 
kernels after 2.4.17 or 2.4.18.  I haven't had a chance to rebuild the 
laptop yet.  It currently is 2.4.0 under SuSE 7.1.
Dow


John Wells wrote:

>Finally got my laptop in.  The thing is beautiful.  RH went on without a
>problem.
>
>However, if I suspend the laptop, say, by closing the screen, all havoc
>breaks loose.  It actually screwed my filesystem pretty bad last night
>(thank God for ext3).
>
>Has anyone gotten suspend to work successfully on these laptops?  I've
>found a number of different approaches on the net, but they're all
>different and experimental.  Is there one approach that works best?
>
>Thanks!
>
>John
>
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