[gobolinux-users] suspend to ram

[Daniele Maccari]

Jonas Karlsson wrote:
> 2008/1/1, Isaac Dupree <isaacdupree at charter.net>:
>   
>> 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)
>>
>>     
> Suspend-to-disk is only one part of that suspend package. It also
> supports suspend-to-ram (which I guess you knew).
> As for Linus' opinions, I don't care that much. In my opinion he has
> some interesting views but he is too much of a know-it-all. I think
> that when no proper solutions exists, workarounds are perfectly
> acceptable. I know what I would choose between using a workaround and
> writing a kernel patch that fixes resume on macbook.
>
>   
>> btw. at the moment I'm running Ubuntu Gutsy (x86 edition) which broke
>> suspend-to-ram completely on Macbook in their latest kernel ;-)
>>
>>     
> The more the reason to use a userspace solution.
>   
I'm using uswsusp for the s2ram part and I must say it works pretty 
well. The problem is that having a external monitor plugged in 
completely brakes the resume. Does anyone know of a workaround for this?

Thanks