[jkalexan]

Forgive me if I'm a bit irate at the moment - but I am rather PO'd with openSuse's inability to suspend to disk/ram.

It should either work - or not work - but definitely not somewhere in between.

In general, when I close the lid to my laptop, it will suspend to disk (suspend to ram never worked). Upon restoration, it is fine most of the time, although on occasion I have a "failed to suspend" error message - but obviously it didn't fail because it did suspend to disk and power off.

However, if I suspend to disk again - there is an increasing chance it will fail to restore itself without needing a reboot. I don't think I have gotten it to suspend to disk more than 3 times in a row - when it "fails" it comes up with a black screen and I am forced to just power off/on.

However, here is my gripe ... when it DOES suspend to disk correctly - it takes FOREVER. Sometimes on the order of 1-3 minutes. That is insane. Just this afternoon, I had to grab my laptop and go - so I closed the lid and slid it in my backpack - I didn't have time to wait to make sure it suspended to disk. Hours later ... I noted a little noise - you guessed it - the computer was ON and HOT as hell.

(hence my terse post here).

So ... I need to find a solution - or else, totally disable this "feature" because the risk of it not working and cooking my machine is too much. It makes me wonder - how often have I left the machine in my backpack, all zipped up and cooking, while the battery runs itself out? I guess - I am saying:
lid closed should = suspend or power off or shutdown - but definitely not stay on (unless, of course, the user has selected that as a choice).

Ok ... I guess I am off to read all the posts about where the problem is and try to track down a solution.

sorry for being so irate - but if anyone has any solutions - or can point me in a direction to look - that would be much appreciated - but for now - I don't trust suspend to disk with openSuse at all ...