Hello On Sat, Aug 18, 2007 at 02:01:15PM -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: > This is getting frustrating. All my searching turns up stuff that > involves responding to some "event" that is triggered by closing the lid > on a laptop. That is obviously not going to happen on a desktop PC.
Why not type 'hibernate' as a root instead of hooking it to closing lid? > Normal rebooting is a pain, because I usually run with 3 or 4 text > consoles logged in for different functions, as well as an X session. So > what do I have to do to get a *DESKTOP* PC to suspend to disk (preferred) > or to ram (second choice)? I use hibernate-scripts configured to use the "old" hibernate 1 (partially because it is OK with vanilla kernel, partially because the hibernate 2 looks a little bloated to me, partially because I know author of hibernate 1). It works without any problem, I just start the system next time and it loads in its original state. Just give it a try. -- All flame and insults will go to /dev/null (if they fit) Michal 'vorner' Vaner
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