FC3 Suspend Problem on Laptop

[Fritz Whittington]

On or about 2004-12-28 17:37, mwood77 at frontiernet.net whipped out a 
trusty #2 pencil and scribbled:

>Hello all!  I'm new here, but so far, found this list to be a great
>resource!  Hopefully I can cantribute soon...
>
>Now for my first problem (read "most important") with my FC3 install.
>
>I installed FC3 on my laptop and updated using up2date so everything is
>current (including the kernel).  One of the main goals of having a
>laptop for me is to be able to suspend, so I decided to tackle this
>problem first.  Since the laptop I'm using (Dell Inspiron 8100) has no
>support for ACPI, I added "acpi=off apm=on" to the kernel line in my
>grub.conf.
>
>Moment of truth, "apm -s" in a terminal session.  Laptop suspends. 
>Looking good.  Hit power button and screen returns to where it was. 
>Looks right.  BUT -- I have no prompt and cannot execute any commands. 
>I can hit enter and the curser moves.  I can even type.  But it's like
>my shell isn't doing anything.
>
>Any ideas?
>
>Thanks in advance for any help.
>
>MWood
>
>  
>
How about a ctrl-c to quit the apm program so you can get the prompt back?

-- 
Fritz Whittington
He not busy being born is busy dying. (Bob Dylan)

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