Yeah I know, most of you out there think I am crazy to have used my laptop without working suspend to ram or disk. Well in my case the combination of my graphicscard and a widscreen resolution forced me to use the fglrx driver from ati (not even vesa was an option). Fortunately, the newopen source radeonhd driver works like a charm 
I deactivated the fglrx driver and am now radeonhd only … yeah that will keep me from gaming … not a big issue currently anyway …
Here are the instructions to install from git.
Happy holidays!
