[ale] Suspend on the Dell Inspiron 8200

[Dow Hurst]

More correctly from teh Debian project page for i8kutils:

Since version 2.4.14-pre8 of the kernel the i8k SMM driver is included in
the core kernel distribution.

Dow


Dow Hurst wrote:

> 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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