SuspendHowto

[Justin Georgeson]

To update, I booted the 2.6.8.1-3 kernel and tried suspending to S3.
And it works. It seems the VBERestore driver option was the only thing
missing for full S3 (and the /etc/acpi scripts)


On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 18:39:12 -0600, Justin Georgeson
<justin.georgeson at gmail.com> wrote:
> Pretty nice set of packages. I'm using a Dell Inspiron 2600 with the
> A08 BIOS, here's my observations.
> 
> General:
> *  I have no text console (no kernel messages during boot, no init
> script output, after boot is done, no vt1-6). X works just fine,
> though
> * There are a bunch of modules loaded for hardware I don't have that
> say "[permanent]" in the lsmod output.
> * Synaptics touchpad no longer has edge scrolling
> * Sleep key combo (Fn+ESC) doesn't seem to bea recognized ACPI event
> (in the regular 2.6.8.1-3 Ubuntu kernel either, so no change there)
> * Since the sleep key isn't recognized, and opening the lid doesn't
> generate a wake event, I changed the lid action to suspend, and left
> the power button with an empty script so it wakes when in S3 but
> doesn't shutdown or hibernate). Again, this is the same behavior as
> the regular Ubuntu 2.6.8.1-3 kernel.
> 
> Suspend:
> *  This basically works, which is a nice change of pace.
> *  The display looked like it hadn't benn turned back on, but it had
> just been blanked. When I nudged the mouse I received the xscreensaver
> password dialog.
> * My wifi card was not properlly re-initialised. It appeard the module
> loaded successfully but the interface wasn't brought back up (power
> light on, activity light blinking at regular interval to indicate
> problem). The card is a Linksys WPC11 V3, using a prism chipset. The
> orinoco_cs module has worked quite well for me with this card in
> Ubuntu and Fedora Core 1 and 2. I went into the Networking config app
> and enabled the card and it seemd to work fine.
> 
> Hibernate:
> *  The hibernation and resume seemed to go alright, but there were a
> few snags after the resume.
> * Despite having the uhci_... module loaded, my USB mouse no longer worked.
> * Wifi card again was not initialised. This time, it wouldn't seem to
> come back up, though. The module was loaded upon resume, but the
> interface just didn't seem to want to initialize.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 01:57:36 +0000, Matthew Garrett <mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org> wrote:
> > On Thu, 2004-11-11 at 20:24 -0500, Tim Hull wrote:
> > > I have created a Suspend Howto to cover how to set up suspend-to-RAM and
> > > suspend-to-disk in Ubuntu.  Check it out at
> > > https://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/SuspendHowto
> >
> > You probably want to take a look at
> > https://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/PMTesting - we're looking into making
> > this work nicely for Hoary.
> >
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> > Matthew Garrett | mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org
> >
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> 
> 
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