Inspiron 8200 + FC3 + suspend/resume

From: Dave Kristol (dmk_at_acm.NOSPAM.org)
Date: 12/29/04

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    <sigh>
    Another post for an ever-popular topic....

    I've been running RH9 on my i8200 for many months now, and it has been working
    great. During a bout of temporary insanity, I clean-installed Fedora Core 3 on
    my i8200 yesterday. The installation went well, just about everything works
    great out of the box, the system looks and runs great. But....

    Suspend/resume does nothing. Now, APCI gets configured by default.
    (More later.) Several people on the Yahoo! linux-dell-laptops group have said
    they turned off acpi and dropped back to APM for power management (acpi=off
    resume=force in grub.conf), and then things worked a little. That did not seem
    to be so for me.

    After some fussing, I can get the machine to suspend via Fn+ESC.
    Resume wakes the machine, but the screen is dark, and AFAICT nothing
    else is working. But that's because the network is evidently down, so
    I can't peek at anything else.

    So, those of you who got APM suspend/resume working: What did you do? (Note: I
    already had it working fine under RH9, but not under FC3.)

    As for ACPI, can anyone point me at information about writing APCI
    scripts, especially with examples? I found useful information at
    <http://acpi.sourceforge.net/documentation/sleep.html> which suggests
    that writing "suspend" to /sys/power/state should cause the machine to
    suspend, but when I tried, nothing happened. Suggestions?

    I'm really quite despondent. FC3 looks very nice, but if I can't resolve this, I
    will go back to RH9, which I know works (including reliable suspend/resume),
    because I absolutely must have suspend/resume working dependably.

    TIA
    Dave Kristol

    PS. For complete hardware configuration details for my system, as well as
    details of how I got RH 8 and 9 to work, see:
    <http://kristol.org/david/dell-i8200/>

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