05.28.09
HP HDX suspend/resume under Linux
If you happen to own an HP HDX series (or other) laptop, and have been having no luck using suspend/resume, help is here. HP released a new BIOS today that fixes a problem with accessing hard drives after a resume. It now seems to work quite beautifully for me. That was the only thing that didn’t work well out of the box with Ubuntu, so I’m really glad it’s fixed.
Here’s a ticket in the kernel bugzilla with all kinds of details about this:
Kernel bugzilla
HDX BIOS update F23A
madneon said,
October 9, 2009 at 1:56 pm
OK, but how to run BIOS update under Linux? ;/
Steven said,
October 9, 2009 at 4:43 pm
madneon, I probably ran it under Windows since I keep that around to dual-boot.
Hmm, looks like they don’t have an option in the BIOS to reflash from USB, either. That’s sorta annoying, now that I look at it.
There’s probably some way to run their .exe under Wine to extract the .rom file, then use something like http://www.coreboot.org/Flashrom to do the flashing. I haven’t tried any such method, so I can’t say whether it’ll work. I suppose another option is to try to get a Windows bootable CD like http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/ built, then use run the HP flasher under that.