How do you have the swap partition set up in your lilo/grub ?
Tried to give it directly at the lilo prompt and tried it with append="resume=/dev/hda3" and/or append="pmdisk=/dev/hda3". In Documentation/power/swsusp.txt you can read:
You need to append resume=/dev/your_swap_partition to kernel command line. Then you suspend by echo 4 > /proc/acpi/sleep.
Kernelconfig help to CONFIG_PM_DISK_PARTITION says:
The partition specified can be overridden by specifying pmdisk=/dev/<other device> which will set the resume partition to the device specified.
So what is the right one?
Anything appearing in /var/log(messages|kern.log|syslog) ?
they all have the same content:
Jan 10 16:58:11 muhlap kernel: Stopping tasks: ============================================================ ============| Jan 10 16:58:11 muhlap kernel: Freeing memory: ...........................| Jan 10 16:58:11 muhlap kernel: hdc: start_power_step(step: 0) Jan 10 16:58:11 muhlap kernel: hdc: completing PM request, suspend Jan 10 16:58:11 muhlap kernel: hda: start_power_step(step: 0) Jan 10 16:58:11 muhlap kernel: hda: start_power_step(step: 1) Jan 10 16:58:11 muhlap kernel: hda: complete_power_step(step: 1, stat: 50, err: 0) Jan 10 16:58:11 muhlap kernel: hda: completing PM request, suspend Jan 10 16:58:11 muhlap kernel: hostap_cs: CS_EVENT_PM_SUSPEND Jan 10 16:58:11 muhlap kernel: hostap_cs: CS_EVENT_RESET_PHYSICAL Jan 10 16:58:11 muhlap kernel: PM: Attempting to suspend to disk. Jan 10 16:58:11 muhlap kernel: PM: snapshotting memory. Jan 10 16:58:11 muhlap kernel: PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.0 to 64 Jan 10 16:58:12 muhlap kernel: PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.1 to 64 Jan 10 16:58:12 muhlap kernel: PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.2 to 64 Jan 10 16:58:12 muhlap kernel: PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1f.5 to 64 Jan 10 16:58:12 muhlap kernel: hostap_cs: CS_EVENT_PM_RESUME Jan 10 16:58:12 muhlap kernel: hostap_cs: CS_EVENT_CARD_RESET Jan 10 16:58:12 muhlap kernel: prism2_hw_init: initialized in 269 ms Jan 10 16:58:12 muhlap kernel: wlan0: trying to read PDA from 0x007f0000: OK Jan 10 16:58:12 muhlap kernel: hda: Wakeup request inited, waiting for !BSY... Jan 10 16:58:12 muhlap kernel: hda: start_power_step(step: 1000) Jan 10 16:58:12 muhlap kernel: hda: completing PM request, resume Jan 10 16:58:12 muhlap kernel: hdc: Wakeup request inited, waiting for !BSY... Jan 10 16:58:12 muhlap kernel: hdc: start_power_step(step: 1000) Jan 10 16:58:12 muhlap kernel: hdc: completing PM request, resume Jan 10 16:58:12 muhlap kernel: Restarting tasks... done

