On 29/03/2012, at 17:35, "J. Roeleveld" <jo...@antarean.org> wrote:
> > On Mon, March 19, 2012 3:56 pm, Alex Schuster wrote: >> William Kenworthy writes: >> >>> On Sun, 2012-03-18 at 18:30 -0600, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: >> >>>> My laptop has used dracut since months ago, and suspends/resumes just >>>> fine, as it does my media center. >> >>> Genkernel doesnt, bugs and work arounds on gentoo bugzilla, with angry >>> comments from a dev that it wont be supported and to not file bugs for >>> it - now that dev has moved on I dont know if enough has changed to test >>> the waters and file a bug again. >>> >>> Its missing a hook in the initrd to call the binary that starts the >>> resume process. >> >> Huh? I don't use this at the moment, because suspend-to-ram is enough for >> me, but it (that is, the initramfs part) used to work just fine out of the >> box for me, also opening my LUKS-encrypted root volume being on LVM. It >> also seemed to work on another Gentoo PC I installed recently, although >> TuxOnIce itself does not work so the resume fails. Argh, this suspend to >> disk stuff NEVER really worked for me, and I tried for years on different >> systems. > > I had it working a long time ago, but the last time I tried it I ended up > with a bit of a problem: > > I don't want a swap-partition on the SSD in my netbook. So I want it to > use the SD-card that's permanently plugged in. Problem is, it's connected > via an internal USB-port and USB is killed before the writing-proces for > the suspend-to-disk starts. > > Anyone know a solution short of rewriting the kernel? ;) > > -- > Joost > > try tuxonice - allows you to suspend to a file on disk as well as ram or swap. Added bonus is its much more robust than in-kernel, and the dev (Nigel) is very responsive if help or bugfixes (usually for new kernel versions) are needed. BillK
