Re: Bug#267600: Is CONFIG_SOFTWARE_SUSPEND enough?

[Thomas Maier <Thomas.Maier@uni-kassel.de>]

[not CCing to 267600@bugs.debian.org at the request of Maximilian
Attems, although I still don't think this bug should be closed]


Am Dienstag, den 22.11.2005, 12:55 +0100 schrieb Jonas Smedegaard: 
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> On Tue, 22 Nov 2005 11:39:13 +0100
> Thomas Maier <Thomas.Maier@uni-kassel.de> wrote:
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> > However, it is quite old.  So am I able to suspend to disk with the
> > Debian kernel image somehow or would I have to recompile with the IDE
> > stuff builtin?
> 
> Problems might only need improvements to the ramdisk tools,
> initramfs-tools and yaird, not necessarily recompiled kernels.
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> According to http://wiki.debian.org/InitrdReplacementOptions both the
> older swsusp and the newer swsusp2 works with initramfs-tools, but the
> author of yaird is aware of problems that might lead to data corruption
> (see bug#329319).
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> If in fact initramfs-tools does not work either, then please update the
> wiki page.

Well, I *think* it won't work as swsusp even refuses to suspend (so I
could never try to resume):

swsusp: cannot find swap device, try swapon -a

So I do not think it will be doable with improvements to the ramdisk
tools alone, but maybe there is some magic going on behind the scenes
that I am not aware of.  Still exploring this stuff.

The Wiki page reads "Needs Test" both for swsusp and swsusp2 and the
Legend says "Unknown, needs to be tested" and that actually doesn't mean
"it works" to me :).  But I am too much a newbie concerning this stuff
and so I wouldn't ever dare modifying the wiki page :).  Thanks for the
pointer, though.

Thomas.