Bug#650013: [gnome-power-manager] Suspend hangs on HP4730s when uswsusp is not installed

[Ondřej Kunc]

Hi, I think that this may be solved by pm-suspend or by kernel directly. 
I know that it's not possible to download firmware when it's needed but 
I may block suspending of the computer when it is very probable that it 
will break it. We have not been warned about missing firmware by gnome 
but by kernel debug message (dmesg) which I don't count as standard way 
for users. Is it possible to reassign this bug to pm-suspend ?

Dne 25.11.2011 18:56, Josselin Mouette napsal(a):
> Le vendredi 25 novembre 2011 à 17:31 +0100, Ondřej Kunc a écrit :
>    
>> I've found one thing ... it doesn't depend on package uswsusp but on
>> package firmware-linux-nonfree. I'm sorry for this wrong information,
>> because I had installed this package because of kernel complain on boot.
>> So uswsusp is not needed. But pm-suspend hangs computer when
>> firmware-linux-nonfree is not installed.
>> The missing file is CAICOS_pfp.bin. How can we solve this for standard
>> users ?
>>      
> If a firmware file is missing, the latest gnome-settings-daemon should
> warn you about that during the session.
> I don’t think we can do much more than that, especially for non-free
> firmware.
>
> Cheers,
>