Laptop sleep gone bad in Gutsy

[Paul S]

Avi Schwartz said the following on 11/19/2007 07:29 PM:
> I upgraded my Dell D820 yesterday from Feisty to Gutsy and since the 
> upgrade, waking the laptop from a sleep is iffy at best.
> With Feisty, waking the laptop from sleep was almost 100% reliable.  
> With Gutsy, the chance of the laptop properly waking up is about 50%.  
> Sometimes it wakes up and in other times it starts waking and then 
> suddenly it powers down.  I can no longer trust putting the laptop to 
> sleep which is a shame since it used to work so well.
> 
> Any ideas what should I look for?

I have very similar experience, and I found that going to sleep by 
hitting Alt-F2 and entering the command "sudo pmi action sleep" will 
resume better than hitting the sleep button.  I do not understand why, 
but it works better here (Dell E1505).

HTH