Does hybernate/wakeup work?

[Gonzalo Nemmi]

On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 7:56 PM, Yuri <yuri at rawbw.com> wrote:

> Paul B Mahol wrote:
>
>> On 10/23/09, Yuri <yuri at rawbw.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> I tried to make system hybernate with 'acpiconf -s4' on my laptop.
>>> It quickly turned off, but when I press the power button it boots like
>>> no hybernate and begins to check disks.
>>>
>>> What can be wrong?
>>>
>>>
>>
>> OS S4 is not implemented, but BIOS S4 is possible on some machines ...
>> And on 8.0 and 9.0 i386 SMP doesnt resume properly (amd64 works).
>>
>>
>
> 'acpiconf -s4' also brings laptop to unwakeable state. Power button begins
> to flash, when I press any button there is some disk activity, power button
> light turns on. And nothing happens.
> 'apm -z' produces similar result.
>
>
> Maybe it's better to ask what works?
> Is there any way I can use suspend/sleep mode? Any basic way to make it
> sleep?
>
> Yuri
>

acpiconf -s3 should put it to sleep .. you can also set
hw.acpi.lid_switch_state: S3 in /etc/sysctl.conf so you can close the lid
and send the laptop to S3 ... the problem might be getting the system to
resume ..

Best Regards
Gonzalo