Issues in hibernate and sleep with F9 on Laptop

[abhishek_kr7]

I just installed Fedora 9 on my Dell VOSTRO 1200 and all of it runs mostly out of the box.
The problems are:

SLEEP:
- Whenever i use the built in "sleep" option on my laptop (is it the same as the suspend option on the shutdown menu?), it does go off to sleep pretty well and comes back on when i resume it. everything works well. but i make it sleep again (the second time) it never resumes. Just hangs with a blank screen until i powerdown and restart.

- sometimes, when resuming from sleep, I get the right 1/4th of the screen going white. It stays for sometime, but after exercising the compiz options and resizing windows etc it goes off... (I have intel graphics - x3100. No additional drivers installed)

HIBERNATE:
- hibernation works well, but after resuming, wifi connections never come on. Its only after a restart that they comeup. As a quickfix, could anyone point me to a script that shuts down the network COMPLETELY and restarts it just like bootup process? (service network restart or service NetworkManager restart dont seem to be effective enough). Of course, a better solution would be to fix the problem so that wifi reconnects directly on hibernate without having to restart network services...


Also, how do I check whether my on-graphics is being fully utilized or not? I'm using it out of the box with no intel drivers on. I dont really know whether its being used at all. some of my compiz-fusion effects (like raindrops etc) cause the screen to go blank and then give in the drop effects.

Thanks for your time and help!

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heres my lspci output for additional info:

[abhishek@localhost ~]$ /sbin/lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile PM965/GM965/GL960 Memory Controller Hub (rev 03)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)
00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 03)
00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 03)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 03)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 03)
00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 3 (rev 03)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 03)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev f3)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801HEM (ICH8M) LPC Interface Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801HBM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) IDE Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 82801HBM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) SATA AHCI Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 03)
01:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 4965 AG or AGN Network Connection (rev 61)
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8055 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 12)

[dhimes]

I'm having the hibernation issues, too.

[saywot]

When I try to get my Dell Latitude D610 (with a fully updated Fedora 9 installation) to sleep or hibernate I lose X and keyboard/mouse/touchpad input
I try using the keyboard to restart the window server but with no KB input that's about impossible.
The screen doesn't appear black or anything but becomes heavily pixellated, like a digital TV trying to pick up a distant station that's just out of the range of an antenna.

I normally have to shut the computer down before leaving it for any length of time. It would be nice to be able to just close the lid and send the laptop to sleep until I nedd it next, but if I shut the lid it needs a hard 'off' to regain the UI

[saywot]

the screen, when the lid is re-opened appears as a 4 x B+W columns, each column consists of rectangular shapes about 30mm high up to the top os the screen, where there appears some pastelly colour.

I suspect the resolution blows waaaay out

Hard to tell when there's no input from peripheral devices tho'

[dhimes]

my screen is fine; I lose wifi (ifup can't get the ip for wlan0). After reboot, I get wifi, but my usb mouse won't work after reboot unless I unplug it and plug it back in.

Somewhere I read that it was a fight between Xorg (?) and Hal; they do some process in one order on booting, where HAL overrides the Xorg config, but after suspend they do it in the other order (I think it's a but) and the HAL settings are overridded by Xorg. (I think the conflict was with Xorg-can't be too sure and I can't find the post...seems like it was in a bugzilla somewhere)

[saywot]

OK

if it is a conflict between HAL and X-Org, how might this be resolved ?

or if it's a bug - shouldn't it be picked up by now ?

this difficulty certainly reduces the useful functionality of the laptop

[saywot]

after the latest updates installed this morning this laptop now doesn't display the chequered columns with the few small lines of colour at the top
- it's all a black screen, still no input from the keyboard the mouse may be working, but since there is no monitor output it, too, may have disappeared as well.

I would like to know how to resolve the HAL/X-Org conflict (if there is indeed a conflict) causing the complete inability to put the machine to sleep and bring it back to life again