Brilliant idea? Involves suspend to disk

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Mon, Oct 18, 2004 at 06:42:38PM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote:

> This is possible at the moment, but a bit difficult. The Warty kernels
> don't include suspend to disk support. If you're happy to rebuild
> kernels, you can switch on "software suspend" in the kernel
> configuration and try that. gdm can be configured to offer a suspend
> option in the system menu, and you can then use that to trigger a
> suspend to disk.

You'll also likely need to compile in the IDE modules you need, and perhaps
some other things.  This is why swsusp is not yet enabled by default.

https://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2003

> We'll be looking into this more closely for Hoary (the next release),
> and with a bit of luck we'll have solid suspend to RAM support as well.

Indeed.

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 - mdz