On Sat, 2013-11-09 at 13:50 +1100, Chris Samuel wrote:
On Thu, 31 Oct 2013 11:11:38 PM Andrew Greig wrote:
I have done some reading and discover that suspend writes everything to Ram and then keeps the ram powered up to retain it all, a meagre power demand. Hibernate writes everything open to the swap partition and then on reboot should resume very quickly.
Hibernate works for me for 5 minutes but not 8 hours, suspend is also flaky in that the recovery tends to hang with no display.
Personally I'd recommend filing a bug about it and see what the SuSE folks say, the fact that it used to work and now doesn't is strongly indicative of a kernel regression.
If there's a new release coming could you try that out with a live USB or DVD image to see if suspend is better?
cheers, Chris
Thanks Chris, A new version of OpenSuse is only 9 days away now, so I will follow your advice and if OK upgrade. Years ago Mandrake Linux 8.2 had oustanding support for USB networking, then lost it for the next few releases. Andrew