Kirya [.net]

Although I have been using successfully suspend2 patch and hibernate script for some time now on my Toshiba laptop, I noticed last week-end that resuming from suspend-to-ram did not re-initalize my video card correctly, leading to a blank screen. I couldn’t find any solution nor explanation to this anf finally gave a try to µsuspend (known as the uswsusp package in Debian)… and this works perfectly, and is far more reliable as suspend2/hibernate.

As a bonus, the time needed to suspend (both to ram and to disk) is considerabily shorter, resuming from s2ram is almost instantaneous!

I had to recompile my kernel to include initramfs support, as well as CONFIG_SOFTWARE_SUSPEND. I also unapplied suspend2 patch from my kernel tree.
As I didn’t previously use initramfs, I had to alter /etc/kernel-img.conf to add:
[code]ramdisk = /usr/sbin/mkinitramfs-kpkg[/code] and still have to recall to use the --initrd option when calling make-kpkg!

I will update my article on the TS M40X during the week-end.

The next step is to use the same set-up on my desktop machine, which currently does not support suspend-to-ram.