On Thu, 22 Nov 2007 21:44:49 +0100
Benoît Dejean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> 
> Le jeudi 22 novembre 2007 à 11:29 +0100, Martin Pitt a écrit :
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Benoît Dejean [2007-11-22 10:42 +0100]:
> > > hal can no longer suspend my laptop.
> > > gnome-power-manager no longer shows the suspend option and
> > > 
> > > $ sudo /usr/sbin/pm-suspend
> > > Error: kernel cannot suspend to ram.
> > 
> > Just a quick note: This is an issue in pm-utils. On powerpc,
> > /sys/power/state only contains 'disk', not 'mem'.
> 
> I don't you suspend to disk, on suspend to ram.
> 
> >  On powerpc with a
> > PMU the prefered way of querying sleep capability and causing
> > suspend-to-ram is to use a sysctl (see attached script from Ubuntu's
> > powermanagement-interface). I believe that echoing 'mem' to
> > /sys/power/state works, too, though.
> 
> Not really, this has never worked on my ibook
> 
> \echo -n mem > /sys/power/state 
> -bash: echo: write error: Invalid argument

Than suspend to ram has never worked on your machine with pm-utils.

> > So this needs a quirk/fix/workaround in pm-utils.

All quirks are in the uswsusp package. If you install it you'll have
a binary s2ram, that will use some iotcl to suspend the machine.

pm-utils recommends it, so under normal circumstances you should have
it.

grts Tim

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