Software Suspend on 2.5.68

Cossins · Posted: Thu Apr 24, 2003 7:05 pm Post subject: Software Suspend on 2.5.68

How?
I (of course) compiled in support for software suspend, but now what?
I downloaded the suspend.sh script and did ./suspend.sh --install. It installed a script called hibernate in my /sbin, which yells "/proc/sys/kernel/swsusp: No such file or directory" at me.

How did you make it work?

- Simon

pilla · Posted: Thu Apr 24, 2003 7:14 pm Post subject:

Moving to OTG.
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Reformist · Guru Joined: 06 Oct 2002 Posts: 323

Good question, as I asked the same question in both of the following threads:
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=45575&highlight=swsusp
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=29159&highlight=swsusp

It seems /proc/sys/kernel/swsusp used to be the controller in which you could send signals to, instructing the computer to shut down, but that location no longer exists because the newer kernels are moving things around. The swsusp scripts haven't been updated for some reason, and on the mailing list, I remember reading a developer tell someone "wait for the new patch" for the newer kernels, which was awhile ago.

So, if anyone creatively got it working, please inform us, but I think that it won't work on any newer kernels (2.5.x) until the swsusp scripts are reworked...
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Cossins · Posted: Fri May 23, 2003 9:28 pm Post subject:

Hopefully, it would be a feature of the 2.6 kernel... I would certainly hope so, as it would make my life a lot easier.

- Simon