[llamabeast]

I can't remember where I heard about "suspend" problems, but I do know that it crashes my friend's (very dodgy) laptop running Ubuntu (probably 8.04), and also my laptop (utterly ancient and running Puppy Linux, which is a much less slick kind of beast so not very surprising).

The Ubuntu forums should know lots about this. They are excellent. But in general I believe it is probably worth using proprietary drivers. Maybe there is a workaround for the suspend crash.