Tips&Tricks Hibernation (via software?)

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ltaljaard

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Post Posted: Tue Jul 09, 2002 7:54 am Post subject: Hibernation (via software?)

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I have a Compaq Presario 2700 laptop and I want to be able to hibernate my system as is possible in Windows XP/2000, without making use of the "factory" hibernate features. Is there any software out there that will allow this? It doesn't need to hibernate from within X, but that would be nice. Thanks in advance for your help!

 

 

sisob

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Post Posted: Tue Jul 09, 2002 8:32 am Post subject:

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I like to use suspend to ram on my desktop as described here:

http://sisob.dyndns.org/index.php?section=...ndrake&page=apm

 

I've never got a full hibernate(suspend to disk) to work

 

 

theYinYeti

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Post Posted: Tue Jul 09, 2002 10:32 am Post subject:

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You may try the kernel patch named swsusp (Software Suspend). It does exactly what you want. According to its authors, it works but it is not perfectly stable. So you may have to try and see if it is OK with your machine.

 

The URL is http://falcon.sch.bme.hu/~seasons/linux/swsusp.html but it may be easier to try an already patched kernel (or a patch-set based on the standard kernel), such as version 3.3 of WOLK (http://wolk.sf.net/).

 

I never tried it, because I never had the courage to try any other kernel than the one shipped with Mandrake. Please report your experience, if you try.

 

Yves.

 

 

theYinYeti

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Post Posted: Tue Jul 09, 2002 10:42 am Post subject:

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sisob wrote:

I like to use suspend to ram on my desktop as described here:

http://sisob.dyndns.org/index.php?section=...ke&page=apm

 

I do something quite similar, but more complete, I think. I create a file suspend.sh which contains:

 

Code:

#!/bin/bash

# wait 2 seconds because you often move the mouse

# when you click an icon and release the mouse

sleep 2s

sudo xset force suspend &

sudo apm -S  

 

Then I just have to relate this script to an icon (eg in a Gnome toolbar). I write this from memory so I'm not sure about some things: I don't know if 'xset ...' is the right syntax, and I don't know if I use 'force suspend' of 'force standby' for xset; I'm not sure as well if I use '-s' or '-S' as the option to apm. But the general idea is that I use 2 commands, the result being to make the screen sleep, and the computer power off some of its part (the USB buses are powered off, so the mouse is off). I wake up the computer with the down-arrow key (the safest one I think)(my keyboard is PS/2, not USB).

 

BTW, what is the difference between all modes? (suspend, standby...)

 

Yves.

 

 

 

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