Some gripes, but also some offered solutions. See what you think...
"I’m getting increasingly annoyed by the state of some aspects of hardware support in Linux.
"My laptop (old Dell Latitude D610, Intel-based with ATI graphics) used to suspend/resume correctly with Linux 2.6.24 (ie, > 95% success rate). Later changes made the success rate drop significantly, and added a problem with kacpid taking 100% CPU because of an interrupt storm. And now, with 2.6.28-rc6, it’s completely broken. (partially documented in bug 11563, but I admit I gave up on this bug, because I’m going to change my laptop soon)." [Read more at Luca Nussbaum's blog]
