Sorry I've taken so long to respond. First off, my computer will not suspend to disk properly. If I type 'hibernate' it gets ready to suspend, but then rather then suspend, it immediately restores itself (no power cycle). If I force it to turn off, it prepares to hibernates and turns off, but does not restore when I turn it back on. It just boots as usual.
Now, I would love for hibernate to work, but I would like to suspend to ram even better. This is straightforward in Ubuntu (my most familiar distro), but not so clear here. First I added the following to lilo.conf:
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resume2=swap:/dev/hda2 acpi_sleep=on
The acpi_sleep=on was something that worked in Grub I think, I don't know if there is an equivalent in lilo, but I added it just in case. After adding the resume2 thing, suspend2 thinks it can hibernate just fine, and as mentioned above, it doesn't.
I tried looking at hibernate.conf in /etc/hibernate, and uncommented
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### acpi_sleep
## To use ACPI to suspend your machine (via /proc/acpi/sleep), comment out
## all the options above for Software Suspend 2 and sysfs, and uncomment this
## line. The number refers to the ACPI sleep state - 3 is suspend-to-RAM and
## 4 is suspend-to-disk.
UseACPISleep 3
## To use ACPI to suspend your machine (via /proc/acpi/sleep), comment out
## all the options above for Software Suspend 2 and sysfs, and uncomment this
## line. The number refers to the ACPI sleep state - 3 is suspend-to-RAM and
## 4 is suspend-to-disk.
UseACPISleep 3
and I commented out all the above stuff as instructed (software suspend 2 stuff). This tells the hibernate script to suspend to ram instead of suspend to disk.
When I run 'hibernate', I get
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root@mythtv:~# hibernate
Your kernel does not appear to have ACPI sleep support.
hibernate: Aborting.
Your kernel does not appear to have ACPI sleep support.
hibernate: Aborting.
In response to others' posts:
cesman: ACPI is in the kernel? I believe it, but I still don't know why suspend2 can't find it.
Xsecrets: Maybe I'll do the wake to record eventually, but for now, I just want to turn it on and off.
nickread: These are the contents of /proc/acpi (which I'm pretty sure means it's in the kernel):
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ac_adapter dsdt event fan power_resource thermal_zone
button embedded_controller fadt info processor video
button embedded_controller fadt info processor video
gsosna: correct, that is what I'm trying to do, turn off and on faster (more like a DVD player/NES/TV
)
alien: I don't think that the link is relevant. I have looked through a bunch of the suspend2 instructions, but since it complained about the kernel I decided to come here.
gsosna again: I agree that it is not clear, can anyone help with his question?
Sorry for the long post. Is there someway to just run a suspend command, not even trying to use the suspend2 (hibernate) script? In Ubuntu, there is a suspend script that you can have run on a power button press. Is there an equivalent in the Knoppix world? Thanks for responses. While I'm waiting for a response, I will try to find what the hibernate script is looking for when it complains that there is no kernel support.