Suspend to RAM pain

[Niran Babalola]

Ok, I think I might have fixed it by uninstalling and reinstalling
fglrx. I'm too scared to reboot and make sure though. I wonder how much
uptime I can get...

On Mon, 2004-11-22 at 21:34 -0800, Niran Babalola wrote:
> I was trying to get my laptop to suspend to RAM by doing this:
> 
> sudo -s
> echo mem >/sys/power/state; chvt 1; chvt 7
> 
> It didn't really work, and after the next time I rebooted, X wouldn't start.
> The circular "wait" cursor appears for a second, then changes to the X
> cursor. A curses prompt comes up that tells me that a server is already
> active for display zero and asks if it should try on :1. If I keep saying
> no, it continues in a loop until it tells me it will wait 2 minutes until
> it tries again. If I say yes, the wait cursor comes up on :1 only to
> quickly turn to the X cursor again. Nothing happens until I move the mouse,
> and when I do that, the computer locks up. I've gone back and removed
> /tmp/.X0-lock, but it still does the same thing. The only lines in the
> XFree86 log file that looked relevant were warnings about /dev/apm_bios not
> existing, but some Google searching says that the X server should still
> start up. Right now I'm trying to remove the fglrx radeon drivers and use
> the xfree ones, but I don't know what dpkg-reconfigure does with the new
> configuration file when I reconfigure xserver-xfree86. I renamed my
> XF86Config-4 file and after reconfiguring, I still didn't have a file
> there. So that's where I'm at right now. Someone save me from the command
> line! :( Thanks.
>