Re: [gentoo-user] hibernation

["J. Roeleveld" <joost@antarean.org>]

On Wednesday, December 03, 2014 11:32:10 AM Michael Vetter wrote:
> Hello there,
> 
> I use i3 as my window manager and use xfce4-power-manager for saving
> battery and stuff on my laptop. Today I tried "hibernation" for the
> first time and realized: it does not work.
> 
> All I did so far was installing fce4-power-manager selecting some
> sections in kernel config that seemed necessary and installed polkit.
> 
> However when I close my notebook's lid (I configured xfce4-power-manager
> to switch into hibernation in this case) it shuts down, but when i press
> the start button, it just does a normal restart.
> What am I missing?
> 
> Michael

To test hibernate try the following:

1) Stop all important stuff
2) run the following as root:
#  echo disk > /sys/power/state

If this works, then you can try to configure a power management tool. 
Please also ensure you only have 1 power management tool configured.

--
Joost