Suspend to Ram

pjpeter · 10-02-2004, 03:28 PM

I thought about posting this in a # of diff forums here, but really its just a noobie question so here it is:

What is the native way in Sarge to send the computer into Suspend mode? What command does that by default, before trying all sorts of differnt solutions and so on.

I read about one command for another distro that definately did something to my computer, but didn't actually send it into a S3 (Suspend to Ram) state and instead just made my laptop seem to have crashed then then made my LCD screen turn into a kalidascope of colours.

So if you can tell me what the default command to do it is (or commands you use that work), then that's be great : )

Thanks,
Peter

pjpeter · 10-02-2004, 04:35 PM

Note that "echo -n "mem" > state" doesn't work, and just makes my screen go funny.

echo -n "disk" > state Seems to save the memory, and it takes about 10 seconds to do this then just goes back to the original screen mode.

echo -n "standby" > state Does nothing but muck up the screen

Here is the message I get (or most of it):

Freeing memory: ...|
ACPI: PCI interrupt GSI 16 level, low
Could not suspend device 0000:01:00.0: error -5
Restarting tasks... done

Peter

littlemidget · 12-30-2004, 05:23 PM

Did you ever get this to work? I am stuck with the same problem now..

pokemaster · 06-26-2005, 06:27 PM

I'm actually running Deb Sarge myself, with similar issues, "echo -n "mem" > state" doesn't work... here's a script I'm working on (I have sound issues on resume that I haven't yet figured out)

Code:

echo "Initializing Suspend-to-RAM..."

# Empty logfile
echo > /tmp/suspend.log

#stop hotplug daemon (crash causer)
/etc/init.d/hotplug stop >> /tmp/suspend.log 2>&1

# Sleep cmd, here's your important one:
echo 3 > /proc/acpi/sleep

echo "...Resuming"

#restart hotplug
/etc/init.d/hotplug start >> /tmp/suspend.log 2>&1 &

good luck, hope this helps you out some!