laptop doesn't power off

[Ian Smith]

On Wed, 12 Aug 2009, Jung-uk Kim wrote:
 > On Wednesday 12 August 2009 12:40 pm, b. f. wrote:
 > >   Also, I know that you said that you were too busy to devote much
 > > time to it earlier, but do you think it will be possible to get
 > > suspend/resume working for i386 sometime soon?  Maybe not in the
 > > next release, but afterward?
 > 
 > I cannot promise anything but I'll try later when I find some free 
 > time.  Another problem is my development environment is 100% amd64.  
 > I need to set up i386 environment first. :-(

Just to clarify .. has there been some regression in i386 suspend/resume 
support in 8.0, or are you just talking about it on particular laptops?

On my Thinkpad T23, at least, suspend/resume worked fine on 6.2 and 7.0 
(after a couple of sysctl tweaks) but I haven't installed 7.2 on it yet.

cheers, Ian