suspend-hybrid under ubuntu?

[Matt Price]

On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 10:41 AM, Lennart Sorensen
<lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> 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.
>
thanks lennart, not looking for uswsusp -- i use tuxonice instead,
it's much cleaner and in my experience always superior.  i just want
to be able to get at the underlying functionality through the
gnome-power-manager interface.
thanks though!

matt
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