From: Trivial Patch Monkey From: Pavel Machek I was sending this to users that had problems with swsusp, then lost it. It would be nice to have it directly in the tree. --- 25-akpm/Documentation/power/tricks.txt | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 files changed, 25 insertions(+) diff -puN /dev/null Documentation/power/tricks.txt --- /dev/null Thu Apr 11 07:25:15 2002 +++ 25-akpm/Documentation/power/tricks.txt Fri Mar 12 13:54:10 2004 @@ -0,0 +1,25 @@ + swsusp/S3 tricks + ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ +Pavel Machek + +If you want to trick swsusp/S3 into working, you might want to try: + +* go with minimal config, turn off drivers like USB, AGP you don't + really need + +* use ext2. At least it has working fsck. [If something seemes to go + wrong, force fsck when you have a chance] + +* turn off modules + +* use vga text console, shut down X. [If you really want X, you might + want to try vesafb later] + +* try running as few processes as possible, preferably go to single + user mode. + +* due to video issues, swsusp should be easier to get working than + S3. Try that first. + +When you make it work, try to find out what exactly was it that broke +suspend, and preferably fix that. _