hibernate works but suspend does not

[O. Sinclair]

golfer wrote:
> On 1/23/07, O. Sinclair <o.sinclair at gmail.com> wrote:
>> One thread on ubuntuforums I have often checked for problems;
>> http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=257684&highlight=inspiron+6400
>>
>> I did a clean Edgy install btw. but still found lots on that thread to
>> help me out.
> 
> Same here .. fresh install .. in fact, using encrypted root (per
> wiki).  Hibernate did not work initially because I did not have a swap
> .. once I added swap, it started working.  Still no luck on suspend.
> 
> Also, I manually edited my /etc/fstab back to /dev/sda5 (et.al) when I
> did the encrypted root, because the lvm numbers somehow got scrambled
> and the wrong partitions were getting mounted in the wrong places.
> 
Well, I have not used any encrypted root "per wiki" and am not using LVM 
  as far as I know, my partitions are named sda1, -2 and so on. Don't 
know if that might help in any way.

Sinclair