my laptop doesn't go to suspend mood (sleep)

[Habashu Sensei]

Hello everyone

I'm new to Fedora OS, I'm loving it so far, I'm reading Fedora Bible too, so I can sharpen my skills in Fedora

my problem is, when I try to suspend my laptop (or press the power button) , it doesn't go to suspend mood, instead it goes to a black screen with couple lines about ram status and stops there, I have to go to virtual terminal using Ctrl + Alt +F2-F7 then kill the X process manually, then restart it.

I have no option to suspend my laptop, I have to shut it down.

can you please help me?

the same problem happens when I close the lid, so is there an option to change that behavior to do nothing instead of trying to suspend?

any help is appreciated, thanks in advance

[marko]

Make sure you've updated to the latest kernel (I suspect you've installed Fedora 17?), I noticed that some of the early Fedora 17 kernels would have suspend, then I'd update and suspend mode would break again (usually the breakage would be that pressing the suspend on the desktop would look like it was suspending but I'd just get the KDE screen lock).

For my Sony laptop, the 3.4.X kernels and higher all suspend ok

[Habashu Sensei]

I have fedora 16, using the uname command, I got the following the following output

uname -a
Linux Habashu 3.3.8-1.fc16.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon Jun 4 20:49:02 UTC 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

should I update to fedora 17?

[marko]

Your running Fedora 16 kernel is 3.3.8-1 (or you updated and haven't rebooted since then), the current latest kernel for Fedora 16 is version 3.4.2-1

If I were you, I'd update the kernel, and then reboot and re-test suspending. I have no idea that Fedora 17 will fix suspending, I was just saying that for me, some Fedora 17 kernels bad broken suspend and other worked. The latest Fedora 17 kernel is working for me for suspending.

My desktop machine at home has Fedora 16 and suspend works for it too. Both machines are using kernel 3.4.2-1

[Habashu Sensei]

seems a good idea, I'm downloading the updates now, and will update you with the results

---------- Post added at 11:31 PM ---------- Previous post was at 10:54 PM ----------

ok, I've updated the kernel, restarted my laptop, booted using the new kernel, and the problem is still there

when I suspend my laptop, it goes to black screen with the following:
initializing fedora <fedora version and kernel version>
initializing ram disk

these two lines appears, and the system hangs, now I can't even go to a virtual terminal to try to kill the X process manually, and I noticed that it seems to be using so much CPU (the lights on laptop are all blinking continuously) ..