On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 08:54:02PM -0400, Albert Hopkins wrote > Ok the echo trick isn't the recommended way to suspend to disk. A > better way is to use "pm-hibernate --quirks" (pm-hibernate is from the > pm-utils packages). The --quirks option will try to handle any, well, > quirks that are known with your hardware. echo'ing to /sys/power/state > is a little more low-level and could be iffy on some types of hardware.
I ended up emerging hibernate-script and it runs great. I added a few tweaks to hibernate.conf. Here's what it looks like... TryMethod disk.conf Distribution gentoo OnResume 00 setfont lat1-10 DownInterfaces auto UpInterfaces auto UseSysfsPowerState disk PowerdownMethod shutdown As for pm-utils... <RANT> Why the bleep can't some programmers go to the bathroom without invoking hal and dbus? They're hard-coded dependancies for pm-utils. I've managed to keep hal and dbus (and java and pam) off my machine, and will continue doing so. If I had a bunch of money lying around, I'd hire some programmers to seriously slim down Firefox while I was at it. There is no reason a browser should need an SQL database. </RANT> > You should also check dmesg. More than likely there is a kernel error > that explains why it failed to suspend completely. Nothing obvious in dmesg when I tried manually shutting down. The listing showed the system shutting down, and then starting up. No warnings, let alone errors. -- Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org>
