In message <20050901205934.GA17057@lori.mine.nu>, Geert Hendrickx writes:
>On my laptop (a HP Pavilion zd8000), suspend seems to work (laptop goes
>down immediatly but power led keeps blinking), but resume doesn't: if I
>power the laptop back on, I just get all kinds of colors on my screen, but
>nothing happens.  Is this a known problem, and is there a solution for it?
>Or is it just broken as it is?  
>
>GH
>
I haven't had that problem but I've seen similar problems described.  
Try switching to a different virtual console and back to your regular 
one (I assume you're running X); alternatively, switch to a text 
console before suspending.

		--Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb