Suspend to RAM/Disk

Amy M amymom at hawaiilinux.us
Wed Dec 15 21:28:17 UTC 2004


Thanks, I will give it a shot.  Now I feel much better about Fedora!!!

Satish Balay wrote:

>On Wed, 15 Dec 2004, Amy M wrote:
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>>Looks like you may be the Savior.  Any info that will help me do the
>>suspend to RAM in FC3 will be greatly appreciated.
>> I have an HP ze4560 notebook.  The only way I was able to cause it
>>to hibernate (suspend to RAM) was to issue a command:
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>>echo 4 > /proc/acpi/sleep
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>What you are trying to do is 'suspend to disk' not 'suspend to ram'. Try:
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>echo 3 > /proc/acpi/sleep
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>>But as everyone would have guessed, with this command (and nothing else), I
>>would not able to wake the machine up after I put it into hibernation.
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>If ACPI doesn't work well - try APM. i.e
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>- edit /etc/grub.conf and add 'acpi=off' at the end of 'kernel' options
>- reboot
>- use Fn-F4 (or 'apm -s') to suspend.
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>Satish
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