Hello everyone,

I downloaded the 2.6.17-2 kernel source with Debian patches and enabled Software Suspend when I built it. My initrd has been updated to use the feature. I have the hibernate and uswsusp packages installed. Unfortunately, s2disk does not properly invoke the suspend feature--it fails to unload my nvidia module, and even when I do this manually (i.e. from the console), the screen blinks with some extra text and I get "s2disk failed." Has anyone had any experience with the kernel level software suspend feature? How would I get it working? It's pretty new, and a few hours worth of Googling didn't produce anything valuable.

Before you recommend it, I CANNOT use the suspend2 patch. The stable patch does not apply cleanly, and the development patch is buggy (i.e. I tried it out and I couldn't resume from a disk suspend).

Thank you

I pray for the day when Linux has software suspend like Mac OS 10.x. I can't wait for it work properly. Maybe someone else has it working okay, but I personally think you're wasting your time. People seem to have better success with the "Hibernate" feature. From my experience, it's better just to shutdown and start up normally. That's what you end up having to do anyway with Linux suspend.

I use 2.6.17.8 (or .9) and I have the ACPI all built into my kernel for my laptop. I use Slackware, and Gnome. I used Gnome power management to tell it to go into suspend when I close the lid when connected to AC, and to hibernate when on battery.

Works fine for me now, takes about a minute to start up though, so I usually just hibernate.

I dunno if I can help you, but if you want to know any of my specific config settings I'll be happy to share them

I'm using 2.6.17.7 and I haven't tried for 2.6.17. I would be very interested in your settings, your personal reliability. So am I understanding this right? It takes a minute to get out of suspend? It really shouldn't be that way. I would consider hibernate though if it took a minute. Still I would like to see what you have done for this.

Actually, I meant to ask about the "hibernate" feature, not the "suspend" feature. I couldn't care less about the suspend feature

Out of curiosity, what were your settings?