From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Linux 2.4.20-18.7 i686) Opera 6.12 [en] Description of problem: Hardware: dell inspiron 7500 - 512 Mb ram Kernel: 2.4.20-18.7 RedHat has changeg kernel configuration since 2.9 series. Suspended mode of several laptop brands stopped working since then. The problem is in .config of the source kernel. CONFIG_APM_CPU_IDLE=y <---------------------- wrong should be like 2.9 kernel series: # CONFIG_APM_CPU_IDLE is not set This has little impact, and solves all of the troubles of apm freezing when returning from suspended mode. Every time I want to update to a new redhat kernel I have to recompile it to have apm working again. Please consider my request and change the configuration of new kernels. This problem does not only occur with inspiron laptops, but with a lot of different brands, which can be easily checked on the net. Thank you. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): X freezes after suspended mode How reproducible: Sometimes Steps to Reproduce: 1.Suspend laptop 2. 3. Actual Results: Generally freezes when returning from suspended mode. Expected Results: Should work always, the way it was in 2.9 series and below. Additional info: I have tested the cited modification in kernel 2.4.20 (either standard or redhat's) and works perfectly.
you don't need to recompile for that; apm=idle_threshold=100 on the kernel commandline has the same effect. If you can send me the dmidecode output of your machine I can even make this the default for this laptop. (dmidecode is part of kernel-utils)
Created attachment 92384 [details] dmidecode output Supplying requested information. Thank you
thanks; I've added your bios/machine to the list of "don't do apm idle" machines.