[wplug] Hibernating Fedora Core 3

Carl Benedict cbenedic at pittsburghtechs.com
Sun Feb 27 18:35:33 EST 2005


On Sun, 2005-02-27 at 12:39, Bill Moran wrote:
> Hey all.
> 
> I just got a new workstation at work, and I'm running FC3 on it (more on
> that later)
> 
> Since it's a newer desktop, it's got all the various ACPI stuff
> available.  Since I'm kind of a tree hugger, I'd like to figure out how
> to tell the system to hibernate, so I can save precious electricity while
> I'm sleeping or otherwise not computing.
> 
> My web searches have resulted in HOWTOs involving patching the kernel and
> lots of people complaining that hibernation doesn't work correctly on
> their system.  I'm hoping someone has first-hand experience with this and
> can point me to a reliable explanation on how to accomplish this without
> problems.
> 
> Also, on our laptop (running FreeBSD) opening and closing the cover
> causes the OS to go into and out of hibernation (very cool) but since
> this desktop doesn't have a cover, I want to make sure I can wake it
> back up before I hibernate it - will hitting a key on the keyboard work?
> 
> For those who know me and are shocked that I'm using FC3 as my desktop,
> I'm not.  I'm using FC3 as a platform to run VMWare, and inside VMWare
> is my FreeBSD desktop.  This makes life grand as it means I also have
> Windows on this machine, and I don't have to reboot.  Very spiffy.

I'm running Fedora Core 2 on my desktop.  I did a lot of Googl'ing to
find the same solution.  Most of what I found was related to ACPI with
laptops and the close lid script.  I tried to configure actions to
perform specific tasks, but to no avail.  If you find an answer to this,
I'd love to hear how this is accomplished.

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Carl Benedict
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