On Thu, March 29, 2012 12:40 pm, wdk@moriah wrote: > > > On 29/03/2012, at 17:35, "J. Roeleveld" <jo...@antarean.org> wrote: > >> >> On Mon, March 19, 2012 3:56 pm, Alex Schuster wrote: >>> William Kenworthy writes: >>> >>>> On Sun, 2012-03-18 at 18:30 -0600, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: >>> >>>>> My laptop has used dracut since months ago, and suspends/resumes just >>>>> fine, as it does my media center. >>> >>>> Genkernel doesnt, bugs and work arounds on gentoo bugzilla, with angry >>>> comments from a dev that it wont be supported and to not file bugs for >>>> it - now that dev has moved on I dont know if enough has changed to >>>> test >>>> the waters and file a bug again. >>>> >>>> Its missing a hook in the initrd to call the binary that starts the >>>> resume process. >>> >>> Huh? I don't use this at the moment, because suspend-to-ram is enough >>> for >>> me, but it (that is, the initramfs part) used to work just fine out of >>> the >>> box for me, also opening my LUKS-encrypted root volume being on LVM. It >>> also seemed to work on another Gentoo PC I installed recently, although >>> TuxOnIce itself does not work so the resume fails. Argh, this suspend >>> to >>> disk stuff NEVER really worked for me, and I tried for years on >>> different >>> systems. >> >> I had it working a long time ago, but the last time I tried it I ended >> up >> with a bit of a problem: >> >> I don't want a swap-partition on the SSD in my netbook. So I want it to >> use the SD-card that's permanently plugged in. Problem is, it's >> connected >> via an internal USB-port and USB is killed before the writing-proces for >> the suspend-to-disk starts. >> >> Anyone know a solution short of rewriting the kernel? ;) >> >> -- >> Joost >> >> > try tuxonice - allows you to suspend to a file on disk as well as ram or > swap. Added bonus is its much more robust than in-kernel, and the dev > (Nigel) is very responsive if help or bugfixes (usually for new kernel > versions) are needed.
True, but I don't want to have too many write-actions to the internal SSD, which means that I'd want the file on the SD as well... -- Joost
