Re: [gentoo-user] Suspend/Hibernate on Dell Inspiron 6000

[Yahya Mohammad <mfyahya@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 08:18:37AM +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote:
> I've never tried suspend to ram, so I don't have much help.  Did you try
> this with xdm shut down also?  You could try the vbetool settings in
> common.conf. Also, try with/without combinations of SwitchToTextMode,
> userui_program, etc.  And I don't know what AcpiVideoS3Bios but it's
> worth a try.

Yes, I did try with xdm shut down. When I enabled vbetool, hibernate to
disk stopped resuming too. I either got a blank screen, or one that
displayed lots of colors in a weird pattern before slowly turning off.

> As you can tell, I'm stabbing in the dark!  If you ultimately get
> nowhere, then the suspend2 users list has excellent help from some of
> the devs.

I'll check that list out too, thanks. It is quite a hassle testing this
though, next time I'm getting one of those vendor supported linux
laptops. Right now, I hope to get this working, and publish my settings
so others may be saved from the trouble.
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