has anyone got suspend or hibernate working on amd64?

Sheepdogj15 · Guru Joined: 07 Jan 2005 Posts: 430 Location: Backyard

i've been monkeying around a bit with these. so far, the only thing that i can get to work is S1 sleep.

i'm not too worried about it since this is a desktop (thus no battery). i could just leave my computer on, but i'd like to conserve electricity without having to go through the startup process every time.

so, has anyone gotten ACPI S3 or S4 working? or how about swsusp? should i just not bother and wait until swsusp2 rolls out on amd64?

also, is there a way to put a SATA disk on spin down (in case i'm limited to S1... or does S1 do that)? hdparm doesn't work too well with SATA i hear.
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pgolik · Posted: Tue May 17, 2005 8:15 am Post subject:

I tried to make my desktop (Gigabyte NForce3 mobo) sleep. Tried S3, also with the hibernate script in portage. No luck, either it blanks the screen for a second and comes up again, or it goes down and cannot be woken up. Probably xorg and Nvidia are the problem, but if I have to logout and kill X each time I hibernate, then I might as well power down and reboot. Haven't tried swsusp or S4 yet. This is one area Linux is very seriously lacking compared to other desktop OS's.
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Lemma · Posted: Tue May 17, 2005 10:45 am Post subject:

I have a Dell Inspiron 4150 (P4@1.7GHz, rather old one) and when I close the lid and try to open it again afterwords, it is a lottery if it will come up or not. Linux is no picknick when it comes to laptops but neither is XP.
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pgolik · Posted: Wed May 18, 2005 9:54 am Post subject:

I'd actually prefer suspending to RAM on my desktop (S3) - this would give me instant-on. Suspend to disk might be easier to get working, but isn't that much of an improvement over rebooting. In WinXP suspend to RAM worked for me. Mac OS X suspends to RAM perfectly on their desktops and laptops. You press the button and the machine is on after a second. I'd really like to have that capability in Linux.

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qwijibow · n00b Joined: 27 Dec 2004 Posts: 58

KDM.
The closed source Nvidia Driver is not compatable with sleep states, and must be unloaded before you attempt to sleep to ram or disk.

Some other drivers are iffy too.
the usb drivers ohci-hdc uhci-hcd and ehci-hcd ( is it hcd, or hdc ?? lol) will sucessfully go to sleep, but on waking, they dont work, and need to be re-loaded before USB devices will work again.

Sheepdogj15 · Guru Joined: 07 Jan 2005 Posts: 430 Location: Backyard

yeah, i'm aware of the problems with the USB drivers. my network driver (forcedeth) suffers the same problem, which is why i made a quick and dirty script to unload it before S1 sleep and then reload it.

but cool. you gave me an idea of where i went wrong, so maybe this weekend i'll monkey with suspending again. thank you.
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bos_mindwarp · Posted: Thu May 19, 2005 11:29 pm Post subject:

Ok this is funny, I had a Dell C400 with P3@800 or something. About two years ago, I had 2.5.xx kernel on it with gentoo, and suspend worked without me doing anything. I just enabled suspend support in kernel, and when I closed the lid, it would suspend. Then it stopped working when I upgraded my kernel, and I never got it to work since. Now I have acer ferrari, but I still cant figure it out.

uprooter · n00b Joined: 06 Mar 2005 Posts: 70

I wanted Suspend and standby and it looked a hard task to do in linux.
So I tried at least the HDD power saving mode..
Using hdparm -Sxx or hdparm -y or -Y didn't work.
I couldn't find what proccess is accessing the disk using lsof or closing unused programs..

No luck so far.
:cry:

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uprooter · n00b Joined: 06 Mar 2005 Posts: 70

Nope...
Just a normal Westernd Digital UDMA 80GB drive..
I smell that the problem is a proccess that is accessing the disk intensively.
But I can't find it.

Sheepdogj15 · Guru Joined: 07 Jan 2005 Posts: 430 Location: Backyard

i remember there was a way to find out using the "fuser" command, but i can't remember what option it was.
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crazycat · Posted: Tue May 24, 2005 5:51 am Post subject:

If u use hitachi , u can modify power saving modes and the level of noise with a special utility , which saves your setting in non volatile ram. I dont recall its name , but i remember it's dos-only.