Suspend to RAM pain

[Niran Babalola]

I was trying to get my laptop to suspend to RAM by doing this:

sudo -s
echo mem >/sys/power/state; chvt 1; chvt 7

It didn't really work, and after the next time I rebooted, X wouldn't start.
The circular "wait" cursor appears for a second, then changes to the X
cursor. A curses prompt comes up that tells me that a server is already
active for display zero and asks if it should try on :1. If I keep saying
no, it continues in a loop until it tells me it will wait 2 minutes until
it tries again. If I say yes, the wait cursor comes up on :1 only to
quickly turn to the X cursor again. Nothing happens until I move the mouse,
and when I do that, the computer locks up. I've gone back and removed
/tmp/.X0-lock, but it still does the same thing. The only lines in the
XFree86 log file that looked relevant were warnings about /dev/apm_bios not
existing, but some Google searching says that the X server should still
start up. Right now I'm trying to remove the fglrx radeon drivers and use
the xfree ones, but I don't know what dpkg-reconfigure does with the new
configuration file when I reconfigure xserver-xfree86. I renamed my
XF86Config-4 file and after reconfiguring, I still didn't have a file
there. So that's where I'm at right now. Someone save me from the command
line! :( Thanks.