Dear Community this is the first time that I ask for help so please excuse any non conformity with the post rules of this forum.
The problem is the following:
I own a freshly bought Dell Alienware 16X Aurora Laptop.
I use Linux for work so I went and installed Fedora (arround October 3 2025).
The installation is in dual-boot with Windows11 with I use for occasional games.
The installer ships with kernel-6.14-<something>-200.fc42 .
Upon updating the system the new kernel shipped was kernel-6.16-<something>. At that point I noticed that whenever the system went to sleep it would cause a freeze of the machine:
- While going to sleep the keyboard backlight never goes off.
- The system is unable to recover.
- Last journal entry for the boot
PM: suspend entry (s2idle)
On that installation I identified that rolling back the kernel would resolve the problem. I identified 6.15.11-200.fc42 as the last working kernel (installed through koji).
At that point I accepted my fate, installed the last working kernel and moved one by excluding kernel updates from dnf, I disabled the exclusion only once to install akmod-nvidia from RPMFusion.
Yesterday I stupidly decided to se if 6.17 solves the issue, disabled the exclusion and run an update.
Sleep broke again, dnf history rollback did not help either ( I managed to perform the rollback with the archives, but sleep was still broken)
The system does not support deep sleep.
I now reinstalled but now sleep is broken for good. Same symptoms.
Any idea how I could go about troubleshooting this? Even just to report it.
Dell famously refuses to investigate linux issues on systems that don’t come shipped with it so no ticket there.
Thank you very much for your attention!!