Well, it would seem that there is a key feature broken with my Inspiron 1420: Suspend is completely broken. Not just a little broken. Completely broken. Attempts to suspend the laptop do nothing more than crash the system.
I, of course, tried various ways to suspend the system:
- sudo pmi action suspend
- sudo pmi action hibernate
- sudo apt-get install uswsusp
Followed by either:
s2ram
s2disk
Another bug: Take a blank DVD-RW. Format it as a UDF filesystem in Windows Vista. Write data to the disk. Now, put it in the Linux system. Write some more files. The UDF filesystem is now perfectly fine in Linux---but Windows Vista can not read any of the data on the disk, and will not allow you to write to the disk unless you reformat the DVD-RW.
Now, this could simply being a case of Microsoft playing their old vendor lockout games, where they refuse to read UDF-formatted disks written to by the competitor's product.
Speaking of vendor lockout, I wonder how log it will take Microsoft before they punish Dell for selling non-Microsoft computers by charging more for Windows.
