Re: ACPI: which modules to unload prior to suspend to ram?

[Florian Kulzer <florian@molphys.leidenuniv.nl>]

Declan Mullen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Sometimes my notebook fails to resume from a suspend to ram. Maybe it
> is because I have kernel modules loaded that don't support suspend
> reliably. Which modules do you suggest that I unload before
> suspending ? Below, I've included the list of loaded modules as
> reported by "lsmod".
>
> My system is a Dell Inspiron 8100 (with ATI graphics) running Mepis
> 3.4-3 (with a 2.6.15 kernel). I do my ACPI suspend to ram from the F1
>  console while KDE is running on F7. I've disabled DRI in the
> "/etc/X11/xorg.conf". I'm using "acpid" (version 1.0.4) which I've
> configured to call hibernate (version 1.12) to do the ACPI suspend 3.
> When the resume does fail, the F1 console remains blank and the
> system totally locked up.

Sometimes the problem with the blank console after suspend-to-ram can be
solved by installing the package "vbetool" and activating the related
option in hibernate.conf.

Regards,
          Florian