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Any Distribution with a working Suspend to Ram??
Posted: Mon 23 Apr 2007, 21:39
by Chouca
Hi,
Running 2.14 on my old laptop and it works great!
I have previously tried Xubuntu, Icewm, Enlightenment and Elive and some of them have had a nice working Suspend to ram functionctionality working out of the box!
I have tried to search this forum and use scripts and hints - Suspend into might work bbbut resume results in complete darkness and the need for a "forced" reboot...
Is there a Puppy flavour with a working Suspend to ram?
Regards
Martin
Posted: Tue 24 Apr 2007, 02:10
by Lobster
Not that I am aware of . . .
Is there any Linux software that does this that could be compiled?
A good idea would be "Puppy Laptop"
Who is up for it?
As soon as we have a PC in a phone, we might have Puppy phone
Posted: Tue 24 Apr 2007, 05:53
by Chouca
If I remember right Xubuntu does it, also Enlightenment (E17) on top of Xubuntu Server does it.
Yes - for a laptop (and also on server used for every day use) it is the way to go - waiting for applications to start up is not that thrilling...
Martin
Posted: Tue 24 Apr 2007, 06:13
by Gekko
When you come out of "suspend" that you found for puppy and it was black, did you try ctrl + alt + backspace?
Posted: Tue 24 Apr 2007, 06:47
by Chouca
Ctrl + Alt + backspace did nothing, it seems like there is no connection with the keyboard at all - toggling Caps Lock does not put on the led for an example.
Making the laptop go to sleep can be achieved in many ways - one is the script from this Puppy thread
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 40&t=14467. To wake it up seems harder...
In other distros the acpi (or apm) directories have been installed/implemented, I don know if that might be a clue...???
Martin
Posted: Tue 24 Apr 2007, 09:05
by Gekko
OOH! Try when you boot puppy "puppy acpi=force" or "puppy acpi=on"
Posted: Tue 24 Apr 2007, 10:18
by Béèm
Yes it would be a good idea to have a puppy-laptop.sfs with all goodies for suspend, hibernate, monitoring support.
Posted: Tue 24 Apr 2007, 14:48
by Chouca
menu.lst;
kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda1 ro acpi=force vga=0
I might add that at resume when I open the lid or press the power on button the hard disk turns on, the screen flashes and turn s black and the keyboard is "disconnected" - only a violent power off helps...
Regards
Martin
Posted: Tue 24 Apr 2007, 17:11
by dot
I don't know if this information is of any use for you, but just for the record:
I tried the built-in key combination on my vintage laptop (Fn-Esc) - and it suspended to RAM just like that!
Plus, it seems to wake up very reliably, much more so than Win98.
dot
Posted: Thu 26 Apr 2007, 19:44
by Chouca
(Fn-Esc) does not work either.
Is there anyone having the APM or ACPI functionality working for Suspend / Resume...???
Martin
Posted: Sun 06 May 2007, 19:00
by acaza
I don't know if it works (not having tested it), but the screenshots of Rudy 2.14 have a suspend shortcut on the desktop. Maybe check with the makers of that derivative, to see if it works there?
Posted: Mon 14 May 2007, 06:32
by lickthefrog2
I'm on 2.12 (Muppy007) on a 1GB RAM Toshiba Satellite laptop.
I can suspend and resume successfully if I don't have many programs open. I have noticed that if I suspend for a long time, resume is inconsistent. Sometimes I have to do the ctrl-alt-f3 thing, but not often.
I tried some of the suspend scripts from users in the forum, but also waking up wasn't consistently successful.
I think the problem has something to do with the X session. I just haven't tested it, but I will. Probably if I kill X and suspend, resume will be consistent.
It still stinks to have to have to re-launch programs. I haven't booted Windows for months, but this weekend I did and the resume from suspend/hibernation made me really want something as consistent in my primary OS.
Bug-free suspend and resume is high on my wish list. Wish I were skilled enough to figure it out.
- lickthefrog2