Finally I managed to hibernate my system. It's not as fast as I hoped, but my system is very slow and it has to restart X and knoppmythfrontend. So the speedup is just factor 2. (approx. 90s)
For all people which graphicscard doesn't support standby here is a short introduction.
At first I changed the debian runlevel 3 in such a manner, that it shutdown the graphical system and lircd.
After the wakeup the system returns to the default runlevel 2.



That's it. Just run down.sh if you want to hibernate the system.

Can you point me/us to the thread? Can't find it

Then you did not search serious enough.
It's a sticky in the Linux forum.

Oops its the top one
Thats what you get if you just use the search without the right keywords (nvidia hibernate).
Thanks though

I am running R5B7, and following cesman's instructions my PC gets as far as

Saving Atomics (or somthing like that) and then just sits there.

Is that a good thing

Assuming not any handy hints ?

Nope it's not. Are you using an nVidea card? If you do edit /etc/X11/XF86Config-4
Browse to the Section "Device" and add the option:
If that still doesn't work, try blacklisting the nvidia modules in /etc/hotplug/blacklist
There's a topic on blacklisting in the ubuntu forum. You can check it out here:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p= ... stcount=21

Let us know how it went.
Regards.

Thanks for the reply.

No, I have a matrox g400 in that machine. Any way to find what it "sticks" on log file or somthing ?

Usualy you can see whats wrong on the terminal or via dmesg and /var/log/syslog.
But since your system hangs its a little difficult to figure out whats wrong.
Perhaps you should subscribe to the Suspend2-users mailinglist. Also try searching the archive http://lists.suspend2.net/lurker/list/s ... users.html
There are lots of mails in it regarding this topic

I have managed to get suspend to ram working on my Toshiba Satellite notebook. If I type [code]echo -n mem > /sys/power/state[/code] as root (either in text mode or in an X-terminal), the system goes right to sleep and comes back up with a push of the power button.

My next goal is to get this to work from the remote. Question one is can I change the shut down and power off option (after hitting esc) so that it sleeps instead of powering off? I tried changing the halt command in the setup but I think I dont have permission to do this from there as I am not root. I think I can do this from a script that is called by lirc but it would be nice to do it from within Myth is possible. Any thoughts?

Also (harder question) is there a way to make the system wake up from my USB remote? It is a Microsoft MCE remote with USB interface?

Thanks for any help anyone can give.

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Well I have tried making a script that I call gotosleep.sh. In it I put the echo mem command followed by two other echos to switch the notebook's LCD off and the TV Out on.

This work well when I run it as root. When I try to run it as user mythtv from X, the script executes but I get permission errors for each of the echo commands. I have the script with owner as root and made it executable by others.

I am a slow moving noobie with Linux so I can somone give me some help on how to run a script with root privledges.

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I tried to use suspend to ram on my r5.5 system. When I "echo mem > /sys/power/state", the system suspends and then immediately comes back to life. When I "echo standby > /sys/power/state", the system suspends to ram and powers down. It then wakes back up at the time I set the ACPI wakeup timer to, but the system is in a funky state:

1. Can't get any kind of out on the display.
2. Things will sometimes freeze up for 10-20 seconds in my putty sessions.
3. "top -d" sometimes shows 432% cpu going to various processes.

So it looks like the resume isn't "clean".

Are others seeing similar issues?

Marc

Some modules/drivers don't suspend/resume well on their own. I don't have a handy list, because resume problems seem to be due to all kinds of causes, each with their own solution specific to the hardware. In any case, maybe these resources will help you work around some of the strangeness, or at least get a better idea of where to look next:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions ... or-474871/

http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Problems_ ... end-to-ram

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=391896

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