TuxOnIce

emmel · External Since: Mar 31, 2009 Posts: 11

Does anyone here have that running on Slackware? I'm wondering where
exactly to put the extra line for the resume function. Any input
appreciated.

Stephen Bloom · External Since: Aug 11, 2009 Posts: 4

emmel <emmel.DeleteThis@invalid.invalid> wrote:
> Does anyone here have that running on Slackware? I'm wondering where
> exactly to put the extra line for the resume function. Any input
> appreciated.

?? I don't know what you're asking for here...

I used to run TuxOnIce, but most of its features have been
incorporated into the standard kernels for some time now.
I find suspend/resume and hibernate work fine using the
KDE (3.5.10) klaptop widget with the kernels from slack
12.2 onward. To run TuxOnIce, you'll have to patch and
rebuild the kernel, which can be a nuisance if you're
trying to stay -current.

My experience here is with a Dell D820 laptop (running -current).

Steve

Sidney Lambe · External Since: Jul 05, 2009 Posts: 20

On alt.os.linux.slackware, Stephen Bloom <sbloom.TakeThisOut@beauty.toad.net>
wrote:

> emmel <emmel.TakeThisOut@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>
>> Does anyone here have that running on Slackware? I'm wondering
>> where exactly to put the extra line for the resume function.
>> Any input appreciated.
>
> ?? I don't know what you're asking for here...
>
> I used to run TuxOnIce, but most of its features have been
> incorporated into the standard kernels for some time now. I
> find suspend/resume and hibernate work fine using the KDE
> (3.5.10) klaptop widget with the kernels from slack 12.2
> onward.

Wow! KDE can actually do, with a special 'widget', what the
shell naturally and easily does.

Linux runners have been performing these operations with just
the shell for maybe a decade.

I just put slrn here into suspend/hibernate mode merely by
pressing Ctrl-z (^Z). I can bring it life by entering "fg".
And obviously just did.

Don't need no stinking Windoze-weenie GDE here.

[delete]

Sid

emmel · External Since: Mar 31, 2009 Posts: 11

Thus Stephen Bloom spoke:

> emmel <emmel DeleteThis @invalid.invalid> wrote:
>> Does anyone here have that running on Slackware? I'm wondering where
>> exactly to put the extra line for the resume function. Any input
>> appreciated.
>
> ?? I don't know what you're asking for here...
>
> I used to run TuxOnIce, but most of its features have been
> incorporated into the standard kernels for some time now.
> I find suspend/resume and hibernate work fine using the
> KDE (3.5.10) klaptop widget with the kernels from slack
> 12.2 onward. To run TuxOnIce, you'll have to patch and
> rebuild the kernel, which can be a nuisance if you're
> trying to stay -current.
>
> My experience here is with a Dell D820 laptop (running -current).

I don't mind patching the kernel, but resuming from a file would be nice
(never needed a swap partition on this machine, so it doesn't have one).
The primary problem, however, is that the machine will freeze up a
couple of seconds or maybe a minute after coming up from suspend and
thus I *hope* TuxOnIce would fix that.

Keith Keller · External Since: Jun 21, 2006 Posts: 478

I'll take Famous Troll Responses for 300 BOZO points, Alex.

On 2009-10-16, Sidney Lambe <sidneylambe DeleteThis @nospam.invalid> wrote:
>
> Wow! KDE can actually do, with a special 'widget', what the
> shell naturally and easily does.
>
> Linux runners have been performing these operations with just
> the shell for maybe a decade.
>
> Don't need no stinking Windoze-weenie GDE here.

Sorry, you forgot to phrase your followup in the form of a haiku.

Shell needs no widget
Runners don't use KDE:
Too much like Windows

300 points for me! YES!

--keith

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Stephen Bloom · External Since: Aug 11, 2009 Posts: 4

emmel <emmel.RemoveThis@invalid.invalid> wrote:

> I don't mind patching the kernel, but resuming from a file would be nice
> (never needed a swap partition on this machine, so it doesn't have one).
> The primary problem, however, is that the machine will freeze up a
> couple of seconds or maybe a minute after coming up from suspend and
> thus I *hope* TuxOnIce would fix that.

Sounds like some of the ugly issues that bothered me on occasion
with TuxOnIce...did you run the series of tests suggested (as I
recall) on the TuXOnIce website? There were serious issues that
could arise if the saved image was somehow incompatible with the
current running kernel -- real bad, complete lockups and corrupted
file systems were possible. Again, lots of warnings to this effect
on the TuxOnIce website.

Steve

emmel · External Since: Mar 31, 2009 Posts: 11

Thus Stephen Bloom spoke:

> emmel <emmel.TakeThisOut@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>
>
>> I don't mind patching the kernel, but resuming from a file would be nice
>> (never needed a swap partition on this machine, so it doesn't have one).
>> The primary problem, however, is that the machine will freeze up a
>> couple of seconds or maybe a minute after coming up from suspend and
>> thus I *hope* TuxOnIce would fix that.
>
> Sounds like some of the ugly issues that bothered me on occasion
> with TuxOnIce...did you run the series of tests suggested (as I
> recall) on the TuXOnIce website? There were serious issues that
> could arise if the saved image was somehow incompatible with the
> current running kernel -- real bad, complete lockups and corrupted
> file systems were possible. Again, lots of warnings to this effect
> on the TuxOnIce website.

Get those freeze ups with suspend to memory. No image involved at all.
It used to work, but these days I just can't do it (safely).

Stephen Bloom · External Since: Aug 11, 2009 Posts: 4

emmel <emmel.TakeThisOut@invalid.invalid> wrote:
> Thus Stephen Bloom spoke:
> > Sounds like some of the ugly issues that bothered me on occasion
> > with TuxOnIce...did you run the series of tests suggested (as I
> > recall) on the TuXOnIce website? There were serious issues that
> > could arise if the saved image was somehow incompatible with the
> > current running kernel -- real bad, complete lockups and corrupted
> > file systems were possible. Again, lots of warnings to this effect
> > on the TuxOnIce website.

> Get those freeze ups with suspend to memory. No image involved at all.
> It used to work, but these days I just can't do it (safely).

Yup, sort of parallels my experience with TuxOnIce. The PM tools have
really matured a lot with the more recent kernels, so I found I didn't
need the extra bits that TuxOnIce offered. I currently have no problems
suspending (to RAM) or hibernating (to disk) my Dell D820, using the
KDE klaptop widget as a front-end to the process. The ACPI stuff
"just works" (such as closing the lid to cause a suspend).

Of course, you may be having some hardware-specific problems that
I'm not seeing with my Dell -- perhaps some RAM issues? Maybe
a memtest is in order...

Steve

emmel · External Since: Mar 31, 2009 Posts: 11

Thus Stephen Bloom spoke:

> emmel <emmel RemoveThis @invalid.invalid> wrote:
>> Thus Stephen Bloom spoke:
>> > Sounds like some of the ugly issues that bothered me on occasion
>> > with TuxOnIce...did you run the series of tests suggested (as I
>> > recall) on the TuXOnIce website? There were serious issues that
>> > could arise if the saved image was somehow incompatible with the
>> > current running kernel -- real bad, complete lockups and corrupted
>> > file systems were possible. Again, lots of warnings to this effect
>> > on the TuxOnIce website.
>
>> Get those freeze ups with suspend to memory. No image involved at all.
>> It used to work, but these days I just can't do it (safely).
>
> Yup, sort of parallels my experience with TuxOnIce. The PM tools have
> really matured a lot with the more recent kernels, so I found I didn't
> need the extra bits that TuxOnIce offered. I currently have no problems
> suspending (to RAM) or hibernating (to disk) my Dell D820, using the
> KDE klaptop widget as a front-end to the process. The ACPI stuff
> "just works" (such as closing the lid to cause a suspend).
>
> Of course, you may be having some hardware-specific problems that
> I'm not seeing with my Dell -- perhaps some RAM issues? Maybe
> a memtest is in order...

It does come up fine. It just locks up after a short while. Or it
doesn't. Though mostly it's the first.
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