On Fri 2008-10-24 21:23:11 -0400, David L. Johnson wrote: > [hibernation] doesn't work. I can suspend to ram, and recall it, > and it works fine, but if I try to hibernate (using gnome's shutdown > and choosing hibernate), it hangs for maybe a minute, then shuts > down. It does not hibernate, it shuts down.
On modern debian systems, as i understand it, hibernation actually
*is* shutting down. The state of the memory and the hardware all gets
written to disk (in a "resume image" in your swap partition), and then
the machine just turns off. The hanging for a minute should be
writing out the RAM and hardware state to your swap device.
The difference comes around at boot time: if the system recognizes an
available resume image in your swap partition, it should boot just
enough to read in that image, reset the state of the system to match,
and then jump right back to where it was.
That's how i understand it, anyway (though i haven't tried it on my
eeepc, which has no swap). Maybe your problem is happening at resume
time?
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