[ltp] suspend/hibernation FC4 & X31

[Jonas Arnsmann]

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Hi there...

I can really recommend the Software Suspend2 packages maintained by 
Matthias Hensler..
http://mhensler.de/swsusp/index_en.php

But i would wait a couple of days for the new FC5 ;)
Release Date is 20.March 2006 and it will support Software Suspend 
"out-of-the-box"

Greetz
//Jonas Arnsmann

Rei Shinozuka wrote:
| thank you very much.  when i sliced my new 100GB 7200 disk, i made
| two 1+ GB partitions, one for swap and one for hibernation... from
| a while ago i seemed to recall my old T23 linux machine having
| a hibernation slice.
|
| i will surely check out the site, thanks again
|
| -rei
|
| On Mar13 17:52, Izaak Branderhorst wrote:
|> Hi there,
|>
|> check out http://www.suspend2.net/ . I don't use Fedora so I can't tell  
|> you whether you'll have to apply suspend2 to your kernel yourself or if  
|> there's a Fedora package available.
|>
|> suspend2 is where the most recent development is. It's more 
feature-rich  
|> than the in-kernel suspend support. I have an old A30 with a GB of 
RAM and  
|> suspend2 really speeds things up by compressing the RAM contents as it  
|> writes to disk.
|>
|> Hint: the swap partition is the safest target to use (don't use the  
|> filewriter). This does mean however that your swap has to be at least 
the  
|> size of your memory plus your 'normal' swap usage.
|>
|> Izaak
|>
|>
|> On Mon, 13 Mar 2006 12:18:38 -0500, Rei Shinozuka <shino@panix.com> 
wrote:
|>
|>> you guys were extremely helpful getting the wifi up and running on my
|>> X31, with WEP even.  many thanks.
|>>
|>> the last important thing that would make this wonderful machine 100%
|>> usable is getting suspend/hibernation to work, the first being much more
|>> important.
|>>
|>> i've found z rahman's X31 Fedora document quite helpful, though with the
|>> APM ACPI suspend, he gives a blow by blow that in the end left me a 
bit  
|>> too
|>> punchy to ascertain what finally worked for him.  i've been googling
|>> around, but for a machine 2-3 years old, you get a lot of obsolete
|>> information, so if someone could point me in the direction of the latest
|>> accepted practice to make suspend/hibernate work, i would be eternally
|>> grateful.
|>>
|>> thanking all in advance,
|>>
|>> -rei
|>>
|>
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