[ubuntu-za] Suspend/Resume issues on Jaunty

[David Rubin]

Hi Josh

Welcome to the list.

On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 6:50 PM, wez <wesley.werner at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Josh
>
> Hibernation is one of those things I don't fully trust, on any OS ;)

Ye I never really found the need for this feature if I need to go to
low battery state for moving my laptop I generally suspend and if it
getting powered down it is getting powered down. (I don't have an
issue restarting my apps most of them seem to save their own internal
state pretty well)


also I can't say I have really heard of people hibernating their desktop pc's

> Because many drivers are proprietary, Linux has a hard time implementing all
> the needed parts that handle hibernation for example. You're most likely
> using the propritary driver for you nVidia card right? Perhaps they're
> freezing up because of this. Check your logs right after a system freeze,
> try spot anything suspect, see if it is the video drivers causing this
> problem.
>>> Im running a Desktop with Jaunty 64 bit.
>>>  Asus motherboard M4N82 Deluxe
>>> AMD Phenom II X4 quadcore 3Ghz processor
>>> NVidea graphics

64bit bit Nvidia could also be an issue. Some of the 64bit drivers
seem to lag a bit behind the 32bit counter parts or at least they tend
to have more bugs.

Something else to make sure is if you intend of using hibernation you
need to have the same if not more swap space as your ram. see
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SwapFaq  (This would be my first
suggestion to check).

David