Re: Desktop and S3 suspend the Holy Grail of ACPI?

[Nick Lidakis <nlidakis-H+0wwilmMs3R7s880joybQ@public.gmane.org>]

Ow Mun Heng wrote:

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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Nick Lidakis [mailto:nlidakis-H+0wwilmMs3R7s880joybQ@public.gmane.org]
>>Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2004 10:09 AM
>>To: Pavel Machek
>>Cc: acpi-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org
>>Subject: Re: [ACPI] Desktop and S3 suspend the Holy Grail of ACPI?
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>>Pavel Machek wrote:
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>>>Hi!
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>>>>>>I tried playing with suspend to disk in kernel 2.6.3. It 
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>>was a no go. I 
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>>>>>>have highmem enabled on this machine which has 1 gig of RAM.
>>>>>>Going to try pmdisk.
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>>>>>Forget pmdisk, that will not work anyway. Try running 
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>>without highmem
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>>>>>(at least for a test).
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>>>>Should I also disable preemption?
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>>>Yes.
>>>								Pavel
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>>Pavel, I'm having some trouble understanding the swsusp.txt file. It 
>>states: " You must explicitly specify the swap partition to 
>>resume from with
>>``resume='' kernel option."
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>>my swap partition resides in /dev/hda4
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>>So I think  I need to do something like this?
>># Boot up Linux by default.
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>>image=/vmlinuz
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>>append="hda=autotune resume=/dev/hda4"   <---- added this
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>That's the way I'm doing it on Grub 
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Then it should automatically resume next time the power button is 
pressed, no other options need to be passed at the LILO prompt?


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