Description of problem:

An update to Fedora 8 thorougly broke previously working suspend
and hibernate on an Acer TravelMate 230 laptop.  It turned out that
in order to restore functionality a replacement for a file
/usr/share/hal/fdi/information/10freedesktop/20-video-quirk-pm-acer.fdi
is needed.

A recent version which can be found at
http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=hal-info.git;a=blob;f=fdi/information/10freedesktop/20-video-quirk-pm-acer.fdi
does include an entry for that laptop.  Not "perfect" though.
After loading it and restarting hal 'lshal | grep quirk' still comes
empty.  That is caused by a spurious blank on a corresponding "match"
line which has

  prefix_outof="TravelMate 630;TravelMate 230 "

With this line replaced with

  prefix_outof="TravelMate 630;TravelMate 230"

and hal restarted that shows up:

  power_management.quirk.s3_bios = true  (bool)
  power_management.quirk.s3_mode = true  (bool)

and the laptop in question start to suspend, hibernate and
(most important) recover from that again.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
hal-info-20071030-1.fc8

How reproducible:
always

Additional info:
In a replacement file there is another line with what it likes a spurious
blank.  That one:

     <match key="system.hardware.product" contains_outof="1640;3100;5500Z ">

Those finding were sent to hal@lists.freedesktop.org. I do not know
if one can find something similar in other makers fdi files from
the same source.

There are more differences in "old" and "new" 20-video-quirk-pm-acer.fdi
than just a TravelMate 230 entry.