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On Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 04:57:24PM +0100, Grant Sewell wrote: > On Mon, 6 Apr 2009 16:48:49 +0100 > Benjamin M. A'Lee wrote: > > > On Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 02:56:28PM +0100, Henry Bremridge wrote: > > > On Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 01:07:50PM +0100, james kilty wrote: > > > > On Sat, 2009-04-04 at 21:42 +0100, Benjamin M. A'Lee wrote: > > > > > > > > > Suspend-to-Disk. Uses no power, starts back up in a couple of > > > > > seconds, and everything’s exactly as you left it. > > > > I tried that for the first time - veryy quick indeed. But no > > > > Firefox stored tabs. > > > > > > > How do you get Suspend to Disk working on a desktop? (Debian > > > running lenny) > > > > Install the ‘hibernate’ package; that gives you a hibernate command > > which tries several different methods. > > Hibernate package installed on my Ubuntu 8.04.2 laptop... both > hibernate-ram and hibernate-disk fail. The reason? I am using > nVidia's own 'driver' rather than the Free one. It's in the list of > modules blacklisted for removal when hibernating of any kind. > > When I can be bothered, I'll try doing so using the Free nVidia > 'drivers' and see if it works any better. :) Yes, both the proprietary nvidia driver and the proprietary ati one are full of hate. You can have it unload the driver before hibernating, but that doesn’t work while X is running. Alternatively, you can force it to hibernate even though blacklisted drivers are loaded, and when it resumes your display is unusable until you reboot. Helpful, isn’t it? :) -- Benjamin M. A'Lee || mail: bma@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx web: http://subvert.org.uk/~bma/ || gpg: 0xBB6D2FA0 -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html