[Leaplist] Linux workstation suspend to disk / hibernate?

[Fred Moore]

Jason Boxman wrote:
> Anyone successfully suspending their workstation under recent 2.6.x kernels?  
> Generally the only reason I leave my box on is to maintain state.  If I can 
> suspend to disk, I'd probably turn my workstation off at night.  Certainly 
> there's `screen` for remote sessions, but I have local development state in 
> my konsole sessions and such I like to keep.
>
> suspend2 seems to work well on my Dell Inspiron 1100, but laptop hardware is 
> designed with suspending in mind.
>
> Thanks.
>
>   

The problem you run into is services that need restarted after a
suspend.  This problem is easily solved with the configuration scripts
provided.    An example..

On my T30 Thinkpad two things didn't work   my USB ports did not work
after a resume and my wifi card did not work after a resume. it was a
PCMCIA wifi card.. ....   I simply did a lsmod -l to find out which
drivers were loaded for usb and pcmcia I then put them on the list to
remove before suspend and reinsert after resume.    So it took about a
month to figure out the problem the first time.. but once found it now
takes about 2 minutes to resolve I have fixed other laptops with the
same procedure.. each and every issue I have ever had with
suspend/resume was fixed using this method.. Fred

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