I have an NEC LX running Red Hat 6.0 with the vanilla kernel RPM update
kernel-2.2.5-22, and suspend and standby both work fine (make sure you
have the BIOS set correctly, so that the suspend power mangagement option
is set to "suspend", not "save to file").
As others have said, make sure you understand the difference between
standby, suspend, and suspend to disk (a.k.a. hibernate or save to file).
The NEC LX BIOS and user's guide call suspend to disk "save to file". To
suspend to disk (save to file) on the LX, you have to suspend and
unsuspend once, beforehand, since you last rebooted; otherwise the screen
blanks for a second and then comes back (just like you describe). I
haven't figured out how to suspend to disk without this workaround. You
also need either a suspend to disk file in a Windows/DOS partition, or a
separate DOS partition dedicated for use by suspend to disk, and set the
BIOS up to suspend to the file or the partition using HDPREPEZ.exe, as
described in the LX manual.
WARNING: if have auto save to file (suspend to disk) enabled in the BIOS
be very careful that you suspend and unsuspend once every time you reboot.
Otherwise if the LX tries to auto save to disk when the battery is low, it
will fail and it will turn off without shutting down or saving anything.
My /etc directory got corrupted because of this once and I couldn't reboot
without reinstalling Red Hat (didn't have it backed up). It might be safer
to disable auto save to file.
Hope that helps.
-Ted
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On 15 Jan 2000, Robert Baron wrote:
>
> When I type apm -s or apm -S, the screen goes black for an instance
> then the comes back and the dmesg tells me that I have resumed. I
> have CONFIG_APM/CONFIG_APM_POWER_OFF=y the rest off and tried RedHat
> 6.1 and 2.2.14/3.1.8. This machine does suspend successfully to a
> hibernate file under windows.
>
> Anyone know how to make a VERSA LX suspend or know how to debug the
> failure I'm having.
>
