Warning, rant ahead, take it with a grain of salt :) În data de Vi, 12-08-2005 la 23:57 -0400, Dave Jones a scris: > The current rawhide kernel (2.6.12-1.1482 and above) now has > suspend to disk support enabled using the in-kernel software suspend. Did you looked at suspend2 [1] The developer tryes (hard) to integrate it into the main kernel tree. > 1. Make sure you have a swap partition. > (if you have >1, it'll only use the first one, so make sure > its at least as big as your RAM). Whilst suspend does evict > some non-essential things from memory before it suspends, > it can still end up with quite a bit to write out. Why not an swap file or just an regular suspend file? [2] Why not use compression to speed things up alot ? [2] > 3. > echo platform > /sys/power/disk > echo disk > /sys/power/state > > (This will all be done in a much more user friendly way for the FC5 release) See the hibernate script mentioned below. > 4. Stare at the gobs of info scrolling up the screen. > (This will all be cleared up eventually, but for now it's > potentially useful for debugging). Why not have purty text or fb UI ? [2] > - Some device drivers don't wake up correctly. > So things like your ethernet may need an rmmod/modprobe after > resuming, to get things working again until the driver gets fixed. Things like the hibernate script available at [1] could help automate such things. It also supports vanilla swsusp > - We haven't tried doing this with X running :) It's likely to work better if > you switch to a tty first. SwitchToTextMode yes in the conf file of the hibernate script mentioned above. > So test, and report any bugs in bugzilla. And if by some miracle it > all works perfectly for you, we'd love to hear success stories too > on fedora-devel list. Yes it works perfectly for me for a quite a few months using suspend2 :D -- Cioby -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
