Hola, Jerome. Ipsissima verba Jerome BENOIT: > I plan to install soon the swsusp sofware > > http://swsusp.sourceforge.net/Software-suspend.html > > on my Debian (testing/unstable) laptop with kernel 2.4.22: > I have just succeeded to apply the patch the Debian kernel-source > package and built the kernel image: > nevertheless before going further, > I would hear about misadventures (or success stories) about it !
I have it on Linux 2.4.20 on a Compaq Presario 1277, and it works most of the time, but it has a couple of issues that still make me shutdown much more often than hibernate: - It is kind of slow. For me, a normal boot + startx takes around the same time as resuming from hibernation. This may be because I don't run many services, nor xdm, gdm or such things, so my machine boots fast anyway... but shutting down is definitely faster than suspending. Particularly than suspending when a lot of apps are running. And I don't have that much RAM (192M, not much for modern standards, anyway). - Sometimes it crashes (kernel panic) while restoring a saved memory dump, which forces me to boot with noresume, losing the saved state. Then only Emacs autosave keeps me from losing work. I think this is related to hotplug: shutting down PCMCIA and USB before suspending seems to help. - Sometimes X gets confused by it. Specifically xv acceleration; on rare occasions the touchpad dies too. Sometimes switching to a text console and back fixes these, sometimes I have to restart X. This is Xfree86 4.3.0 on a Trident Cyberblade, with the synaptics touchpad driver. Anyway, as I said, most of the time it works, so I do suspend now and then. Also, as you can guess from my kernel version, I'm probably not running the latest and greatest swsusp. Some of those issues may have been fixed, and the suspend/resume times improved... so please tell us how it worked for you :-) -CR -- Ceterum censeo: SCO delenda est. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
