Dell D820 & Suspend to ram on SUSE 10.1, SLED or SLES

[Victor_Lowther at Dell.com]

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> From: linux-desktops-bounces at dell.com 
> [mailto:linux-desktops-bounces at dell.com] On Behalf Of Bjørn Kelsen
> Sent: Tuesday, November 21, 2006 3:38 AM
> To: linux-desktops
> Subject: Dell D820 & Suspend to ram on SUSE 10.1, SLED or SLES
> 
> Hi, 
> 
> 
> I've had Suspend to ram work on my Dell D820, by using "s2ram 
> -f", this was running 0pensuse 10.1 
> 
> However when I moved up to SLED I've gotten a problem where 
> it seems to work but after a few minutes my keyboard start 
> writing multiple characters when pressing the key only once, 
> and typically my Firefox will freeze. 
> 
> Switching to console Ctrl-Alt F1 everything looks just fine, 
> but my X windows environment is frozen. 
> 
> Resetting it but moving to runlevel 1 and back to 5 doesnot 
> fix it - only a full reboot brings me back to normal. 
> 
> As explained these problem ONLY occur after a suspend to ram 
> and a return, never after a complete shutdown - so it has to 
> a suspend problem - I just cant figure out which one. 

:)  There are quite a few to choose from.  Can you give me a bit more information about what hardware your D820 has?  Video card, wireless adaptor, that sort of thing.  Information on what modules are loaded across a suspend/resume cycle would also be useful, as well as testing to see if hibernate works.
 
> I have gone thru alle the different options that S2ram has - 
> and none of the solves the issue. 
> 
> 
> Somewhere Iøve seem posting hinting that it may be an APIC 
> related issue, but why the suttle difference between ipensuse 
> 10.1 and SLED  then ? 

Suspend/resume in Linux is still a bit touchy, and driver issues are at the root of most suspend/resume issues I have dealt with.  I usually end up having to custom compile my kernel and drivers to get reliable suspend/resume on most distros.

> Any ideas ? 
> 
> 
> KR Bjørn 
> 
> 
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