[linux-laptop] Suspend with nc8230

[Francois ARNAULT]

Hi everyone,

   Did someone managed to make suspend to disk or ram work well on an 
HP/Compaq nc8230 ?

   I've tried in-kernel suspend & suspend2 patch, suspend-to-ram & 
suspend-to-disk, with different kernels and options, and I'm not satisfied 
for the moment (details below).  I wonder if anywone knows a way to make 
suspend (to ram or disk) works perfectly on this machine.


   Precisely, I wonder if someone has better results than me in
one of these 3 directions :

   1: Suspend to ram : Suspend seems to work, but resume fails.  Screen 
remains blank, and keyboard does not seem to respond.  :-(

   2: Suspend to disk : Works almost (with in-kernel suspend or suspend2 
patches).  The problem is that, most of times, the fan does not work 
correctly after resume.  Then the CPU temperature grows rapidly and 
eventually I have to shutdown the laptop.  Compiling fan and thermal 
support as modules, unloading at suspend and reloading after resume did 
not solved the problem.  :-(

   3: I use kernel 2.6.12.6.  I've tried 2.6.13.x (x=0, 1, 2) but these 
kernels simply hangs my laptop at boot.  :-(


   No luck for the moment.  I didn't found yet on the web reports 
saying how to make suspend on the nc8230 working without problems,
I have read also some reports about nc6110/6120/6220 but I fear that
solutions there does not solve the problem for nc8230.

  I think that suspend is a very important feature for a laptop.
  Except for the suspend feature, I think that the nc8230 is a good laptop 
with Linux.

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François ARNAULT    arnault -at- unilim -dot- fr