And did a suspend. The screen goes black and then there is a lot of disk activity and the fan goes crazy. After about >5 mins the laptop goes into a suspend state. I was then able to wake from suspend. I haven't waited this long before so echo 1 or 2 might have got the same behaviour.
Haven't got time to try hibernate or anything else for the next two days.
I tried
echo 3 > /proc/sys/ kernel/ acpi_video_ flags
And did a suspend. The screen goes black and then there is a lot of disk activity and the fan goes crazy. After about >5 mins the laptop goes into a suspend state. I was then able to wake from suspend. I haven't waited this long before so echo 1 or 2 might have got the same behaviour.
Haven't got time to try hibernate or anything else for the next two days.