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tigrmesh

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From: Florida, US

Registered: 2007-12-11

Posts: 794

Hibernate on lid close?

Suspend works; resume from suspend does not.  I get a black screen.  And suspend on lid close works, but if I accidentally close the lid, I can't resume. 

However, resume from hibernate works great.  So I'd like to set suspend on lid close to hibernate instead.  Any problems or gotchas I should be aware of?

kamituel

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From: Poland

Registered: 2006-09-14

Posts: 47

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Re: Hibernate on lid close?

I had the same problem on my laptop (Toshiba Satellite A200 Series) - resuming from suspend resulted in black screen.
Solved it by setting some HAL params - quirks.
What is the output of

lshal | grep quirk

on your machine?
I have:

  power_management.quirk.s3_bios = true  (bool)
  power_management.quirk.s3_mode = true  (bool)

and I had no problems since I set it.
But the set of quirks you should turn on may be different for your laptop, so try google for it.
good luck
kamil

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Profjim

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From: NYC

Registered: 2008-03-24

Posts: 658

Re: Hibernate on lid close?

Like kaituel says, you may be able to get your resume from suspend working by adding a quirk to the end of your suspend command. For instance, I have to use "/usr/sbin/pm-suspend --quirk-vbestate-restore". Google and the pm-suspend docs will be useful; but you may also have to do some trial and error.

As to the question you posed: sure, you can set the close-lid command to be hibernate instead of suspend, why not? But uou may have a problem sometimes if you've got too much (unpurgeable) memory in use to fit on the partition you specify.

tigrmesh

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From: Florida, US

Registered: 2007-12-11

Posts: 794

Re: Hibernate on lid close?

I'm feeling too impatient for trial and error right now, so I'll continue with the original plan.

Thanks for the responses 

firecat53

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From: Lake Stevens, WA, USA

Registered: 2007-05-14

Posts: 1,542

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Re: Hibernate on lid close?

You could also try uswsusp (s2ram and s2disk) instead. I had troubles on my hp dv6000 not resuming from pm-suspend, but s2ram -f works great. There's a wiki article that covers setup for uswsusp. I changed the default in /etc/acpi/handler.sh to s2ram -f for a lid closed event.

Scott

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