31 Oct
2013
31 Oct
'13
12:11 p.m.
Hi all.
Things with Suse 12.2 were fine as far as suspend and shutdown were
concerned on both my desktop and notebook computers. The arrival of
12.3 heralded a less than satisfactory behaviour. I have put up with
this for some time, but enough! is enough!
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.
Shutdown hangs on exit unless the previous command was suspend in which
case it works as expected.
Is this a case of ACPI not being consistent with the BIOS? Should I add
"no_acpi" to the grub file?
A new release of Suse is only 18 days away, should I see what the
upgrade brings?
I would be grateful for advice in this,
Many thanks
Andrew Greig
9 Nov
9 Nov
2:50 a.m.
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
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10 Nov
10 Nov
9:38 a.m.
On Sat, 2013-11-09 at 13:50 +1100, Chris Samuel wrote:
On Thu, 31 Oct 2013 11:11:38 PM Andrew Greig wrote:
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
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
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