Re: s2ram

[Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com>]

On Thu, 21 Oct 2010 10:54:13 +0200, roberto wrote:

> hello, i usually switch to standby mode using: s2ram -f -p -m
> 
> 
> sometimes, it happens the laptop switches on correctly but the screen
> stays blank and the keyboard irresponsive: i could not figure out the
> issue but i'd like to know if there is anyway to bypass the forced
> shutdown i have to do afterwards, by pressing for 4-5 seconds the on/off
> button.

Blank screen and keyboard not responding looks like some sort of Xorg 
problem, like if it were stuck/frozen :-?

What VGA card and what driver are you using?

What does the suspend log say? (/var/log/pm-suspend.log)

Some useful links:

http://wiki.debian.org/Suspend
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Suspending_to_RAM_with_hibernate-script
http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Suspend_to_RAM

Greetings,

-- 
Camaleón