tomorrows rawhide kernel.

[Dumitru Ciobarcianu]

În data de Sî, 13-08-2005 la 09:26 +0300, Dumitru Ciobarcianu a scris:
> 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
> 

Ugh, silly me, I forgot:

[1] is http://www.suspend2.net
[2] is http://www.suspend2.net/features


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Cioby