Problem Suspending on Debian Etch (Solved)

[Tim Dijkstra]

Op Tue, 26 Sep 2006 22:34:49 -0700
schreef jantzen <david.jantzen at comcast.net>:

> Well, perhaps I can stop bugging people about this.  Last week as part
> of an otherwise ill-advised upgrade from unstable (to solve this
> issue), I obtained the kernel image 2.6.17-2-amd64.  Since the update
> hosed my graphics driver and I had to rollback Xorg, I never got
> around to testing suspend with the new kernel image til now.  It
> works.  No idea why.  I'd listen to an explanation if anyone has one.
> 
> > 
> > Linux kernel: 2.6.16-2-em64t-p4-smp
> > HAL: 0.5.7.1-2
> > udev: 0.100-1

There were lots of changes to suspend between 2.6.16 and 2.6.17, so
that maybe related.

Btw, to better debug such a situation, it is good to know that hal just
calls a script
	/usr/share/hal/scripts/hal-system-power-suspend
Which just tries to find if various known programs to suspend are
available. In the end it will fall back to 
	echo disk > /sys/power/state

Hal (or udev) by it self does not know how to suspend. So if you have
problems you're better of getting it work from the command line first.

grts Tim