> Ganeshram Iyer wrote: > >hello experts, > >I have debian sarge on a dell inspiron 5000. i was looking at using > >either a sleep or hibernate function on it. but whatever info i am > >able to find online requires me to path and compile my own kernel. i > >have a very slow PC and limited space on my had (about 1gb) so do not > >want to install compilers etc. is this the only way i can do this? any > >clear howtos to do this? any help you can offer would be most > >appreciated. > >thanks > >ganesh > > > Haven't tried yet, but there's a debian package called hibernate. > I have looked at this but if I run it, it says the following: Your kernel does not have any recent Software Suspend 2 support compiled in. Please follow the HOWTO linked from http://softwaresuspend.berlios.de/ for instructions on how to compile Software Suspend into your kernel. hibernate: Aborting.
if i look at the website then it mentions patch/compile/install kernel. dont have the power to do this. will i still be able to do this? thanks for your help. ganesh
