Richard Fish wrote: > On 12/6/06, Xamindar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I have hibernation set up on my laptop and am just wondering if there >> are any programs that are unsafe to have running when hibernating. One >> of the main ones im wondering about would be vmware. Can I hibernate >> while I have windows xp running in vmware and still have it exactly how >> I left it when I power back on? I will probably try it soon anyway but >> just wondering if anyone else out there has more experience. > > I have done this, but end up rebooting the vmware session every time I > try, because I move around to different networks and the networking > between linux and XP gets confused. So generally I'd recommend > suspending the virtual machine with vmware's suspend function first, > and then hibernate. You are right, it kills the vmware machine on hibernate. I just tried it. Oh well, at least it doesn't freeze. I'll try that vmware suspend function. > >> Also, I notice that my cpu governors and being able to change the clock >> speed of the cpu no longer function once I resume from suspend. >> >> One other thing is that any programs that use the sound device are >> killed when I hibernate (because hibernate is set to restart alsasound >> or else sound doesn't work any more)....any way to stop that from >> happening? > > Are you using the alsa drivers from the kernel, or the alsa-drivers > package? And which sound driver? Alsa drivers from the kernel. snd_hda_intel snd_hda_codec
> > I guess the 2 points of advice I can offer here are: > > 1. If you are doing suspend-to-ram, do *not* unload any hardware > drivers. A lot of hardware expects the OS to preserve state through > STR, and that is really only possible if the drivers remain in memory. I don't, suspend to ram works great. > > 2. If you are doing suspend-to-disk, it should be possible to > unload/reload virtually any modules, such as acpi. This is because > the BIOS is executed and is responsible for setting the initial > hardware states. > > -Richard With hibernate I am still working on the acpi stuff. I tried having it unload the cpu governor modules but it says they are in use when I try to hibernate. Cpu sticking on maximum after a resume from hibernation is really annoying. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
