how is suspend-to-disk supposed to work?

[Matt Price]

On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 05:58:23AM -0700, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 04, 2006 at 11:12:57PM +0200, Joerg Beyer wrote:
> > I installed the hibernate package, which may or may not be a good idea.
> > 
> > When I try "powersave -U" I get the box to suspend (I had to remove
> > some modules). When it wakes up again the screen is scambled.
> 
> All of the necessary components are installed with the default desktop
> install; you do not need hibernate or powersaved, and should uninstall them
> unless you have a specific reason.
> 
> > I am not sure, what is the supposed way to get suspend-to-disk. Any
> > pointers to documentation are welcom.
> 
> System->Log out, select "Hibernate".

unforunately, on my system (also an amd 64 x2 3800+) this doesn't work at
all.  It would be nice to know what exactly gnome is doing when you press
the "hibernate" button -- anyone know if this is documented somewhere?

matt

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