this bug is similar to bug 36978, but on different hardware. With redhat 7.1 installed on a Sony Vaio SR7K laptop, things run fine and seem to suspend successfully. On resume, the hard drive spins up and the fan comes on, but the screen remains blank and the system is non-responsive to keyboard input. reproducable: always to reproduce: 1. boot redhat 7.1 2. press Fn-ESC to suspend the system (machine turns off) 3. hit any key to unsusupend power light comes on but machine is now locked up The problem persists whether or not you suspend from with X11 or from a virtual terminal. In Redhat 7.0 suspend/resume worked fine. The suggestion from <http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=36978> about rlling back the apmd RPM to that from RH 7.0 did not solve the problem for me.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 37694 ***