found 561877 1.4.1-8 tags 561877 + patch thanks I studied this problem on latest pm-utils in testing. pm-utils has now obsoleted HAL and ship quirks db by itself. There is a typo in 20-video-quirk-pm-sony.quirkdb that adds ``--quirk-s3-bios'' to all machines. That option causes hard freeze on nearly all later models of SONY Vaio and I believe this is the cause for those problems reported here.
A patch is attached for your reference. This is a very serious bug because it breaks suspend / resume on all SONY Vaio models so please consider fixing it a.s.a.p. Thanks.
--- 20-video-quirk-pm-sony.quirkdb.org 2011-08-23 17:43:40.000000000 +0800 +++ 20-video-quirk-pm-sony.quirkdb 2011-08-24 23:10:34.000000000 +0800 @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ match system.hardware.product regex ^VGN-FS115Z$ addquirk --quirk-s3-mode endmatch - match system.hardware.product regex VGN-FS730|PCG-FX405|VGN-C2S_G|VGN-B1XP|VGN-FE21B|VGN-B100B||VGN-B1VP + match system.hardware.product regex VGN-FS730|PCG-FX405|VGN-C2S_G|VGN-B1XP|VGN-FE21B|VGN-B100B|VGN-B1VP addquirk --quirk-s3-bios endmatch match system.hardware.product regex ^(VGN-FS115B|VGN-C140G|VGN-TX3XP_L|VGN-T250P|VGN-AR31S|PCV-RX612|VGN-FS485B|VGN-SZ61XN_C|VGN-TZ37|VGN-TZ170N|VGN-FS920|VGN-C240E|PCG-FX601|VGN-SR11M)$