Suspend on Inspiron 9400 not working?

[Phil Meyer]

Stanczak Group wrote:
> After the last kernel my suspend is not working. How can I start to 
> figure out why? What happens is the system suspends, but why I open 
> the lid it lights up like it's starting, but the screen stays blank. 
> Moving mouse or hitting keys does not display login for screen saver. 
> I've not tried without screen saver yet, so I'll try that now and 
> report back if it works.
>

There are some hints here:

http://people.freedesktop.org/~hughsient/quirk/quirk-suspend-advanced.html

Especially, you can enable additional debugging:

echo 1 > /sys/power/pm_trace
pm-suspend

Try this from run level 3 to eliminate graphics drivers.

No Love for my 9400, either.

Good Luck!