hibernate / ACPI suspend: help needed

[Rurik Wahlin <rurik@astro.uu.se>]

Hi

I've installed debian pure 64 on a laptop (acer Aspire 1522WLMi) a few
weeks ago. My previous experience with linux are pretty limited, but I've
managed to get most of the system working. Now I'm trying to get hibernate
to work on it wothout much success. I first tried the suspend2 patch on
kernel 2.6.10, giving compilation errors, but later a post on their
website said that it's not supposed to work. I'm now trying with the older
ACPI suspend. I compile the kernel (2.6.8, now, I had additional problems
with 2.6.10) setting:

#
# Power management options
#
CONFIG_PM=y
CONFIG_SOFTWARE_SUSPEND=y

I run the hibernate script configured for suspend to disk: UseACPISleep 4

The computer shuts down without any visual errormessages, (the hibernate
log file is also not indicating any problems), but when starting the
computer using grub:

title           Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.8 Resume
root            (hd0,4)
kernel          /vmlinuz-2.6.8 root=/dev/hda6 ro resume=/dev/hda7
initrd          /initrd.img-2.6.8
savedefault
boot

it starts as if no hibernate had been performed except for the lack of a
swap partition.

Any sugestions? Am I doing something wrong? Has anyone managed to get the
suspend function to work? I really need it.

I have the AMD Athlon 64 3000+, 1GB RAM and using a swap partition of 2GB.

Best regards,
Rurik Wahlin