Acer Aspire 7250: no suspend, no hibernate

[sidd2]

I wanted to have my internal disk encrypted. And with Fedora it worked out of the box. I also feel it's somehow faster than Ubuntu, or at least it seems so much more responsive.

Now, I have a dualboot with Windows 7. Windows can suspend and hibernate no problem. And I would like that functionality too. The suspend seems to be broken on the latest Fedora x64 with the latest patches. It goes to sleep almost as fast as Win7, if not faster. It does wake up somehow, but the screen never lights up. I have to power it down and do a cold boot. Meaning everything is lost.

And the hibernate is nowhere to be found in the interface. The swap is large enough to fit: 8Gb swap for 4Gb RAM and in daily work I don't get to use the swap.

Where can I look for a solution?

[sidd2]

So this is out of the question in Linux? At least how do you speed it up a little bit?

[smr54]

Keep in mind these forums are less busy than Ubuntu or LinuxQuestions, so sometimes it takes longer to get an answer. Also, it's for a specific model and it may be as simple as no one on the forums having the model in question. (And by the way, putting the laptop model in the subject line was exactly the right way to do it--too many people leave out specifics.)

Have you tried with other Linux distributions. (It might even be worth trying with a live CD of something, which would help figure out if it's Linux in general or just Fedora. And...if just Fedora, may be worth filing a bug, though it would mean that a developer would have to have the laptop model to check.)

[sidd2]

smr54: you are right. As for other distributions, some don't boot (thanks to the new BIOS, I assume) and the others have that issue too. So, probably I have answered my question already and it has something to do with the autodetection.

[smr54]

Ok, well, that indicates that it is probably Linux rather than Fedora that has the issue. In that case, you might want to try Linux questions (always good to mention you posted here but that no one was able to help--otherwise, someone seeing it in both places might try to answer in both places, wasting your time and theirs--), just because it's such a busy site, and there might be someone there who can help.

[sidd2]

Defective by design? Sadly there are no alternatives in the laptop sector. And the desktops, not only they are a pain to transport and deploy, but they are about to be phased out.