I've had some problems with Intel graphics on my DELL in Fedora 14. Sometimes video, sometimes full screen flash, and sometimes sleep caused it to crash. On my older IBM with ATI, everything worked just fine. Anyway, in Fedora 16 the graphics and sleep works just fine for me.
I definitely could be wrong in my conjecture. I've used sleep reliably under Arch Linux in the past. (Not using it now because my laptop doesn't work anymore without being plugged in.)
On the same hardware that Ubuntu (and friends) didn't work on? I've been having problems with resuming, and wondered if going to Arch would help, but couldn't think of a real reason why it would.
It's not a fair test; haven't tried a recent Ubuntu, but: suspend to ram and suspend to disk were broken on Ubuntu 10.04 and 10.10 with my Eeepc 900. Arch + TuxOnIce has worked great for suspend to disk for about a year now.
