tracking down suspend/hibernate bugs?

[Paul S]

Matthew Garrett said the following on 01/15/2008 09:00 AM:
> acpid needs restarting, so rebooting is the easiest way to do that. If 
> Fn+Esc no longer works, there's some sort of KDE issue.

This is not good.  I  had a kernel update so had to reboot anyway.  Now 
I find that even Fn-Esc does not work.  The only way to suspend is by 
konsole with "sudo pm-suspend" and it still works ok.  The 
kde-power-manager menu "suspend" does not work. either nor the keyboard 
"sleep" button.