13.1.1 XFCE - suspend/hibernate

[sphere]

Hi all.

I recently installed Salix OS to check it out. I was actually quite impressed with what you guys have accomplished. I'm an old Slackware user, but the last year or so have come from the Arch scene.

I encountered only one real problem with Salix on my laptop which I couldn't figure out.

I did the basic install, and set up XFCE, installed xfce-power-manager.

I configured it to suspend when I close the lid, and it suspends alright, but the screen doesn't resume upon wake-up. The same goes for hibernation.

If I suspend via pm-suspend or via the actions menu in XFCE, it works perfect, but not when I suspend through physically closing the lid.

I can however wake up the display by switching console (ALT+CTRL+F1/F2/F3) but then X doesn't start up.

I have added my user to both the power group and made an entry in /etc/sudoers to allow my user to do a "sudo pm-suspend/hibernate" without needing a password.


Anyone have a solution for me?

Keep up the good work guys!

[pwatk]

To resume from hibernation you need to edit /etc/lilo.conf and add a resume= variable pointing to your swap partition.

You can do this by appending this command to the append= line at the top of the file like this:

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# Start LILO global section
# Append any additional kernel parameters:
append="quiet  vt.default_utf8=1 resume=/dev/sda1"

Or you can use an addappend= line within each boot command section you think requires hibernation. Here a section from my lilo.conf:

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image = /boot/vmlinuz-generic-smp-2.6.33.4-smp
  initrd = /boot/initrd.gz
  root = /dev/system/root
  addappend="resume=/dev/system/swap"
  label = Generic
  read-only

Note, I use an LVM on my hdd, your swap partition is probably something like /dev/sda1. You'll also notice I use the generic kernel with an initrd but you can ignore this.

[sphere]

I already have resume=/dev/sda2 (which is my swap) in the append line in lilo.

[pwatk]

To be honest I never use suspend and I only hibernate if I run out of battery so I doubt I can be much more help, sorry.

[sphere]

making the switch back to arch linux solved my problem.

[damNageHack]

making the switch back to arch linux solved my problem.

Hmm, then it justifies my suspection that it is some kind of an issue with the loaded modules. The hibernation/wake script seems not to unload and load the modules well. XFCE uses a different way to initiate hibernation than pm-utils (I doubt that XFCE uses pm-utils at all).
If you are still interested in getting Salix to work properly with your machine: Which modules have you loaded before going to hibernation?

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lsmod