From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 386561389E2 for ; Sat, 6 Dec 2014 07:41:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1B92EE0895; Sat, 6 Dec 2014 07:41:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtpq1.gn.mail.iss.as9143.net (smtpq1.gn.mail.iss.as9143.net [212.54.34.164]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC73AE086D for ; Sat, 6 Dec 2014 07:41:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [212.54.34.134] (helo=smtp3.gn.mail.iss.as9143.net) by smtpq1.gn.mail.iss.as9143.net with esmtp (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1Xx9zQ-00056f-7O for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Sat, 06 Dec 2014 08:41:16 +0100 Received: from 53579160.cm-6-8c.dynamic.ziggo.nl ([83.87.145.96] helo=data.antarean.org) by smtp3.gn.mail.iss.as9143.net with esmtp (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1Xx9zP-0004aR-Rg for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Sat, 06 Dec 2014 08:41:16 +0100 Received: from andromeda.localnet (unknown [10.20.13.51]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by data.antarean.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id F16DF4B for ; Sat, 6 Dec 2014 08:40:59 +0100 (CET) From: "J. Roeleveld" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: hibernation Date: Sat, 06 Dec 2014 08:41:18 +0100 Message-ID: <16517980.BFzQ2mVHeL@andromeda> Organization: Antarean User-Agent: KMail/4.12.5 (Linux/3.16.5-gentoo; KDE/4.12.5; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: References: <547EE6AA.5060601@uni-konstanz.de> <5480D085.9030102@marc-stuermer.de> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Ziggo-spambar: ---- X-Ziggo-spamscore: -4.9 X-Ziggo-spamreport: ALL_TRUSTED=-1,BAYES_00=-1.9,PROLO_TRUST_RDNS=-3,RDNS_DYNAMIC=0.982 X-Ziggo-Spam-Status: No X-Spam-Status: No X-Spam-Flag: No X-Archives-Salt: 4f0c2dbc-9bde-4991-a88b-43613ee25875 X-Archives-Hash: d9df8f1763999dbed1cc7cb1512f24ef On Friday, December 05, 2014 03:08:25 PM James wrote: > Marc St=FCrmer marc-stuermer.de> writes: > > The sad thing about hibernation is, that it has always kinda been s= ome > > kind of lackluster in the kernel and quite disappointing. It is a k= ind > > of area which does not get much love in the kernel for at least ove= r one > > decade. > >=20 > > So if you want to get this working reliable, good luck. You'll need= it. >=20 > Hibernation depends on a myriad of CPU variants, setting and the matc= hing > memory issues. (U)efi is a good place to start your long, arduous jou= rney > of research [1] ; see S4. Not my experience, suspend-to-disk works quite well. The biggest issue = was=20 with certain drivers not being able to re-initialize certain hardware. = (Yes, I=20 am talking about the likes of Nvidia) With current kernels, it does work though. > I would research the problem and fix it with winblows as the operatin= g > system, if possible; then hope that those setting are not changed > by booting linux. Often you can copy the bios setting from the laptop= > and find tools to at least view the contents legibly. It does depend > on the bios. Maybe you need a vendor supplied bios update/downgrade. >=20 > Maybe Coreboot, has some old work laying around that is relevant to > your needs [2]. It is mostly a research journey, that may lead > to success or failure. Hard to say, as sometimes the same make and > model of a laptop, has diffent internal components (like firmware, bi= os > and chips)... For suspend-to-ram, I agree. Suspend-to-disk can be handled by the OS. -- Joost