Cannot suspendo to RAM nor disk on Dell Inspiron 1525
 

I use KDE as the windows manager, and I noticed that it doesn't suspend the session to disk nor ram.
I tried to configure all profiles in Power Saving to suspend to disk or ram when the lid is closed, but it just locks the screen. If I press the sleep button (Fn+ "Moon symbol"), it does not either. The same if I try to suspend using the Kickoff -> Leave -> Suspend to RAM/Disk.

How can I fix this?

Thanks in advance!



Also, a small off topic question: When I'm using Slackware (like now), my posts indicate just that I posted using "linux", instead of showing the blue S "linuxslackware"... How do I change this?

If you are using firefox then type "about:config" in your address bar.

gives a warning ....continue.

in filter type useragent

change the value Firefox/3.. to Slackware/Firefox ....

use /usr/sbin/s2ram from super user mode

s2disk is not there by default, but you can install it. However, pm-utils work just fine.

@ Geriao

Do you have a swap partition?
Try in your lilo.conf after kernel line:
When /dev/hda7 is your swap partition.

Then re-run /sbin/lilo

Thanks! I just did that... This is the first post so let's see...



I just checked it, it seems that this program/script is not present on that folder.


I do have, and it seems that it's being used (when I use "cat /proc/swaps" it appears).
I use GRUB2 as a bootloader (because Ubuntu was there before Slack), and it auto-probeb Slack and made an entry (does not chainload LiLo). Should I edit the grub configuration?
And by after kernel line you mean the line just after
right?
There's already an append line there:
I can put the "resume" line just after that, right?

It worked (the user agent thing)! Thanks, raju.mopidevi!

A thing I just thought... Should the account I'm using, which is a normal and sudoer user account belong to an specific group, like power, plugdev...? Where can I check the special permission each group has? I tried to look into the shadow file, but there's no apparent info on that there... The plugdev group, for instance, isn't even listed there.

I think you chainload to Slack from Grub2 right? So changing grub config won't help, just put that append line in lilo.conf like for me it's:

Then you need to re-run lilo for the changes to take effect.

Didn't you use useradd script to add user? Anyways, add yourself to these groups:

You can see the groups in /etc/group

Actually, Grub2 loads the Slack kernel directly (no chainloading; I never see the lilo splash screen). And about the existing append line in my lilo.conf, is there any problem adding another append line? Should it be

or

?


About the accounts, I used useradd (or adduser, can't remember) to create it... But I didn't add it to any groups other than users, so I was trying to add it after creation. I edited the /etc/group thru /usr/sbin/vigr and added myself. It seems the gpasswd works too. Thanks, ~sHyLoCk~!

Thanks

I'm not quite sure about what I did, but now I can suspend to RAM! I believe it's because I added my user account to the "power" group (I added it to plugdev also), then rebooted.

Guess it's solved! I will try later to suspend to disk...

Exactly. The instructions you were getting about swap and lilo had to do with suspend to disk . . . not ram.

Yet I couldn't suspend to RAM either. I still have to try to suspend to disk...

I tried to suspend to disk, the laptop indeed turns off, but when I try to load it again, it seems that it's a new session. I guess I will need to add this append line to grub, or add a custom entry to chainload lilo...

Now I chainload lilo from grub... The display is greatly improved! Before it was like if the resolution was very low... Now I get a much bigger resolution.
I checked both grub.cfg and lilo.conf, both seem to use "vga = 773", but grub doesn't work for some reason... Oh well!
I'll try to suspend now, after adding the resume parameter...