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User-space software suspend

Posted Oct 6, 2005 15:31 UTC (Thu) by quintesse (subscriber, #14569)
Parent article: User-space software suspend

How much longer is this going to take? It's the year 2005 for god's sake and Linux still has no perfectly working suspend/hibernate? It's really one of the few things that drives me nuts at times about Linux (re-installing all kernel modules for a new kernel is the other).

NB: But I think I was succesful in convincing the maintainer of the ATrpms to include swsusp2-enabled kernels in his repository so hopefully I won't have to worry about swsusp2 anymore in the near future :-)

NB: Now to convince NVidia to make their drivers suspend-compatible!

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User-space software suspend

Posted Nov 7, 2005 22:01 UTC (Mon) by lacostej (guest, #2760) [Link]

> NB: Now to convince NVidia to make their drivers suspend-compatible!

I sure need that as well. Come on nvidia! I have a 3.5 years old Dell laptop and suspend to disk never worked!

User-space software suspend

Posted Apr 8, 2006 20:51 UTC (Sat) by lacostej (guest, #2760) [Link]

I would like to update my statement.

After upgrading to Ubuntu dapper drake test flight 6 and following this: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/NvidiaLaptopBinaryDriverSuspend

I am finally able to suspend to RAM (and probably disk as well).

I've tested this with the latest nvidia kernel and madwifi (all installed by ubuntu) while on a wireless connection with Skype software on.

Suspended. Waited for 30 seconds. Reopenend the machine, tried to call laptop using Skype from another PC, and It Just Worked.

Finally. Too bad the machine (Inspiron 8100) is getting really tired (4 years old, one dead battery, one dead USB, one dead PCMCIA, dead CD/DVD drive). That's without counting the 2 replaced hard disks and 2 replaced motherboards, + the dead keyboard.

Nevertheless it now finally works. I'll open a beer to celebrate.