Hibernate and Suspend

[Matt Price]

OK, 
so I'm getting much closer to my goal of being able to suspend and
hibernate my dell latitude d820.

I've dicovered this much:  the two power management hotkeys (Standby
and Hibernate) work quite differently.  "Hibernate" is a stnadard
keypress, keycode 165, which is picked up by gnome-power-manger or
powernowd (not sure which) and activates a suspend cycle (kernel-level
swsusp, I think.  As far as I can tell there's no ACPi suspend-to-disk
on this machine, though I'm not sure yet).  This starts with
xscreensaver being turned off, then a power-down cycle which takes
somewhere upwards of 45 sconds.

"Standby" activates an ACPI event (Button/Sleep), which at first was
calling the standard acpi-support script sleep.sh, which in my case
did absolutely nothing.  However, by installing the hibernate package
(I used the newer debian 1.91 package, which has new configuration
structure) I was able to map the key to the hibernate script, which
basically stops any worrisome drivers and modules (in my case nvidia
seems the worst culprit) before suspending, then reloads them on
resume.  

Now:  when I first got this laptop hibernate seemed to be
workingfine.  Then after some fiddling I got "standby" working (yay!);
butthis seemed to break hibernate.  Now after some more fiddling both
seem broken.  Here are my symptoms:

Standby:  suspends just fine (takes a while though); however, on
resume there are usually very serious problems, e.g. the root FS will
be mounted read-only and basically nothing will work; I then have to
do a hard recet.

Hibernate:  suspends just fine, but usually doesn'tresume at all.  If
it does resume, then acpi is usually broken & standby is no longer an
option.  If Irun stuff for a while other stuff seems to break as
well.  

I feel there's probably some conflict between hibernate, powrsaved,
gnome-volume-manager, etc, but I'n not sosure what's really going on,
it's all so complicated.  If anyone has more advice I'm VERY grateful
for it!  

Thanks,

Matt


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Matt Price	    matt.price at utoronto.ca
History Department, University of Toronto
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