[Gllug] suse 9.3 hibernation

[Henry Gilbert]

Hi Diana,

After a bit of reading and researching in the web.
I got to the conclusion that hibernating - otherwise known as
software-suspend in Linux
is still going further testing and development.

In short, it seems that it is not perfect yet - so I personally
wouldn't push it too much at this stage. Also software-suspends
depends very much on the machine.

There are two types of software-suspends

Suspend-to-Memory (Machine is still on)
Suspend-to-Disc (Machine is switched off)

A highly-charged technical paper on the subject (which I am about to
read) can be found here:
http://suspend2.net/

I just have this feeling that it might be one of those challenges that requires
performing open-surgery to the operating-system.

My sister has a Samsung P28 laptop, but I installed Fedora on hers.
I have to admit - when it came to offer also software-suspend as part
of the package.
I was much of a coward and shyed away :(

If I come across something more concrete and that works out of the box.
I'll let you know.

Meanwhile I will carry on with the tech-reading ..
seriously stimulating ...
.. ah the joys of being a geek 8^)

regards

Henry


On 10/26/05, Henry Gilbert <henry.gilbert at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Diana,
>
> can you try this ?
>
> go to your console
> type in
> su
> then your root password
>
> then type
> apm -s
>
> let me know what happens.
>
> it should be the first sign to wether you have software-suspend
> enabled or not.
>
>
> kind regards
>
> Henry
>
>
>
> On 10/26/05, Diana Scott <dianascott1 at hotmail.co.uk> wrote:
> > Hi Henry
> >
> > Do you know how to get the hibernation function in Suse 9.3 to work with a
> > samsung laptop?
> >
> > Please help.
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Diana
> >
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