hibernating laptop

[Malcolm Yates]

On Friday 02 March 2007 09:47:19 pol wrote:
> <posted & mailed>
>
> My laptop 'suspend to ram' facility does not work well: sometimes
> my laptop recovers, sometimes the display stays black, although the
> system has restarted, user being able to remotely connect through
> an ssh session.
>
ah - one trick is to ctrl alt F1 and bring up a tty screen. When that is up, 
ctrl alt F7 to get back to the desktop.  There are more things to try too ...

This a symptom / solution that keeps showing up on my ThinkPad T43 ..... as 
well as double un-suspend requirements on occasions.

oh - I also use KDE on Ubuntu, not just vanilla Kubuntu and the video chip is 
ATi mobile.

Malc

> So i have tried to install the 'hibernate' and the 'uswsusp' packages
> They do not conflict each other nor they ask any questions at the
> installation stage.
> Any advice about which package to chose?
> How to enable one of them?
>
> thank you
>
> --
> Pol



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