how is suspend-to-disk supposed to work?

[Michael T. Richter]

On Thu, 2006-25-05 at 13:46 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:

> > It works fine for me provided I don't need a keyboard when I turn
> > the computer back on.  It's really freaky, actually.  On no fewer
> > than three machines--and three radically different ones at that: an
> > old Sony laptop, a middle-aged generic desktop and a brand new Dell
> > laptop--suspend saves everything to disk, comes back up to where it
> > was suspended, and then allows you to do anything. Except use your
> > keyboard. On the desktop machine, unplugging and replugging the
> > keyboard doesn't do anything, but plugging in a USB keyboard into
> > any of the three machines allows it to work.  (But never the
> > built-ins for the laptop nor the PS/2 one for the desktop.)



> Did you submit a bug on that?


Actually, no.  In all cases when I encountered the problem I wasn't in a
position to report bugs and then, later, life being what it is, I didn't
get myself around to it.

I'll characterise the bug and report it.  What package does it belong
to?

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