suspend-to-disk and uswsusp

[Eric Lemoine]

On 10/23/06, Markus Kolb <usenet-092006 at tower-net.de> wrote:
> Eric Lemoine wrote on 23.10.2006 11:50:
>
> > For now, before getting into technical considerations, I just wanted
> > to know if someone on the list had a success story with uswsusp on
> > edgy?
>
> You have to configure the swap partition. The data from memory is
> written to swap on suspend. After restart there must be the kernel
> option resume=/dev/<swapdev> The kernel loads memory data from swap and
> continues.

What you're referring to here is swsusp. What I'm trying to use is
uswsusp (user-level software suspend). I tried swsusp but that did not
work.

> That's the theory. I don't know if it will work for you. Here it does
> not. I think it is some kind of driver problem. The resume works but it
> fails to continue with the old state.
> Same with the memory standby mode (S3). It goes to standby. Holds disk
> but wakes up immediately and something is broken because the
> monitor/graphiccard does not wake up.
> The S1 mode works.
>
> So give it a try but don't be disappointed ;)

Ok, I'll try ;-)

-- 
Eric