x86 Suspend/resume support in Hoary

Justin Mason jm at jmason.org
Thu Jan 13 19:00:54 CST 2005


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Matthew Garrett writes:
> Suspend and resume support has now landed in Hoary. Please see
> http://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/HoaryPM for instructions on how to set
> it up and test it, and then add your results to
> http://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/HoaryPMResults . The amount of feedback
> we get will determine how things are set up by default in Hoary, so
> please let us know how well stuff works.
> 
> Notes:
> 
> 1) This is currently for x86 only. PPC and AMD64 support is being worked
> on, and should follow shortly.
> 2) If you're using the closed nvidia drivers or fgrlx, this probably
> won't work. Either change to the free drivers or hassle nvidia and ATI
> for drivers that support power management. We can't do really do
> anything to fix them.
> 3) This code is experimental. ACPI suspend to RAM still fails on several
> machines, and you won't necessarily get your display back after resume.
> 4) Once you've tried this, please update
> http://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/HoaryPMResults 

quick question -- APM suspend will continue to work despite this,
right?  I'm very happy with APM (once I eventually got a hibernate
file working).

- --j.
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