[gobolinux-users] suspend to ram

[Isaac Dupree]

Jonas Karlsson wrote:
> 2007/12/31, Isaac Dupree <isaacdupree at charter.net>:
>> on my macbook I successfully suspend-to-ram via `echo mem >
>> /sys/power/state` as root.
>>
>> Xorg 7.3, Linux 2.6.23.8
>> (without wireless/airport, which I haven't installed any way to use on
>> linux)
>> (using kernel mouse-button emulation with F12 for middle-mouse-button
>> and eject for right-mouse-button)
>>
>> with two caveats I've noticed so far:
>> When it wakes up, it pastes, as if the middle mouse button were pressed.
>>   This is in the terminal in which I ran my script `ram` [1] in, so I
>> don't know what happens elsewhere
>>
>> After suspend/resume (whether it happened in X or console), the non-X
>> console doesn't display anything anymore until I reboot
> Have you tried userland software suspend (http://suspend.sourceforge.net)?
> There is a recipe for it (which is called uswsusp). It has a lot of
> workaround and fixes for different computer and bios issues.
> 

no I haven't tried that, because I don't care about suspend-to-disk, and 
such a tool shouldn't have workarounds needed for suspend-to-ram (in 
Linus' opinion at least)

btw. at the moment I'm running Ubuntu Gutsy (x86 edition) which broke 
suspend-to-ram completely on Macbook in their latest kernel ;-)

-Isaac