Hibernation woes

[Pastor JW]

On Thursday 08 May 2008 08:17:30 am Derek Broughton wrote:
> > On power up it worked but complained it did not work but it did.
>
> And you haven't answered my questions about that.

I have been following this thread for awhile and trying out the instuctions on 
my laptop.  After clicking the hibernate icon, it does give a readout of some 
kind.  Mine goes so fast I can't read it but it says something to the effect 
it can't find swap.  But it goes ahead and hibernates, ...I think!  If swap 
is needed perhaps what I think is hibernation is something else, although to 
get there I click the hibernate icon, like I said.

> > So far, no one has yet come up with a solution to this problem I have
>
> So far, at least two people have told you exactly what your problem is.
>
> So, one last try before I give up on you.  What does "free" show?
>
> derek at bella:~$ free
>              total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
> Mem:       1025972     934844      91128          0         52     311512
> -/+ buffers/cache:     623280     402692
> Swap:      3004112      30280    2973832
>
> If the number in the "used" column for Mem is less than the number in
> the "free" column for Swap, you need a bigger swap partition [and before
> someone says how untrue that is, I know, it's just an approximation].

For info, here is mine:

dell-desktop:~$ free
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:       2066040     494400    1571640          0       1588     136804
-/+ buffers/cache:     356008    1710032
Swap:            0          0          0

So if hibernation needs swap, what is my laptop doing?  It goes to a blank 
screen and to get back on, a pop-up come to request my password then it is 
just as it was before with all my open apps in place.


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