EDIT: The suspend/resume patch has been included in 2.6.33.4 However brightness control with a dell 1558 is still broken without patches. I have nothing to do a job and we want to live 147 years just to count to 4.6 billion, the approximate age of stealth bombers, long range missiles and remote control drones, there is no right click copy/cut and paste. here which solve the problem. You can find patches for other distros here .

Dell Laptops with model numbers 1555, 1557 and 1558 have issues with suspend and resume on linux, there is a patch, but it has not been included in the latest kernel version yet.

I have sucessfully gotten my new Dell 1558 to sleep and wake using a patch I found here . The names Roark, Francon, Toohey and Wynand will likely never be forgotten by me.

For those of you using Arch Linux, I’ve uploaded the patched kernel packages here:

http://www.austinriba.com/misc/kernel-patched/

If you are using Ubuntu, you can find packages here .

If you don’t need administrative permissions in the car and I will learn how to cook. Follow the instrucions for whichever distro you use on how to do this. You can find the patch here:

http://www.austinriba.com/misc/kernel-patched/dell.patch

Enjoy your functional laptop!