Re: Thinkpad Z60T suspend to ram

Dear Dr Kulzer, thanks for the hints.
I did the following:

apt-get install hibernate
that installed also vbetool

I tried to read the manuals, but I did not understand properly what I'm suppose to do.
But at least, I finally understand the difference between "suspend" and "hibernate".

When I tried to "suspend" the computer (pressing Fn-moon), it failed but I had a pop-up addressing me to
http://people.freedesktop.org/~hughsient/quirk/

There I find many useful information, but stil I'm not able to suspend the computer correctly.
I modified "i810" in "intel" in the xorg.conf file, as requested by  ./quirk-checker.sh  and, as far as I can understand, I must use the quirk "--quirk-s3-bios" to the pm-suspend command.

If i write pm-suspend--quirk-s3-bios, everything seems to work fine, but I do not know where to write this option permanently.

Here (/http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Problem_with_display_remaining_black_after_resume) it is suggested to write
DISPLAY_QUIRK_S3_BIOS=\"true\"  into /etc/pm/config.d/config for FC7.
I did it, but seems not to work with debian.

Moreover, in the manual for pm-suspend I read
FILES
       /etc/pm/config.d
           The files in this directory are evaluated in C sort order. These
           files can be provided by individual packages outside of pm-utils.
           If a global configuration variable is set, the value set to will be
           appended to the previous value. If any other variable is set, it
           will be ignored. The syntax is simply: VAR_NAME = value. See the
           CONFIGURATION VARIABLES section for valid variables defined by
           pm-utils. External packages can define others, see their respective
           documentation for more information.

and the CONFIGURATION VARIABLES section below in the manual seem not to report
DISPLAY_QUIRK_S3_BIOS=\"true\" as a valid variable.

I think that there are some files where I have to write some options, but I'm unclear where they are and in which order they are read/executed
Any hint as to where to learn such things?

Moreover, coming back to hibernate, in the hibernate manual I see that I should compile the kernel in order to let "hibernate" work. Is that true ?
From dmesg I have not any tuxonice non suspend2 item

I went to the http://www.tuxonice.net/ but there there are not yet the directions on how to recompile the kernel.

Thanks again
Ottorino



The configuration files are in /etc/hibernate/. Install the "hibernate"
and "vbetool" packages and read the documentation.

Also see here:
http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Problem_with_display_remaining_black_after_resume