suspend-hybrid under ubuntu?

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 10:34:01AM -0400, Matt Price wrote:
> really this should go to the ubuntu ml but i really really don't want
> to subscribe myself back to that monster list.  Does anyone know how
> to get gnome-power-manager to offer suspend-hybrid as a suspend
> option?  pm-utils (which is the backend for g-p-m) knows about hybrid
> suspend and will trigger an event when pm-suspend-hybrid is called,
> but I can't get g-p-m to do offer that option in the power menu, or as
> an automatic funciton when e.g. the suspend button is pressed, laptop
> lid is closed, or computer is idle.
> 
> i much prefer the hybrid option b/c there seem to be some bugs with th
> suspend functionality on my machine and i'm tired of losing data...

Well I have seen a package named uswsusp.  I think if you have that
installed, and you have at least as much swap space as ram, then it
should give you the option to suspend.

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