Re: [TuxOnIce-devel] [RFC] TuxOnIce

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Mon May 11 2009 - 17:24:14 EST


Hi!

> >> >To summarise disadvantages:
> >> >
> >> >- only core has 8000 LoC
> >> >- it does stuff that can be easily done in userspace
> >> > (and that todays distros _do_ in userspace).
> >> >- it duplicates uswsusp functionality.
> >> >- compared to [u]swsusp, it received little testing
> >> >
> >>
> >> To summarise advatages - for me tuxonice is the only hibernation method that works.
> >> (Till now I've had 3 machines - no one of them able to resume with in-kernel swsusp.)
> >>
> >
> >Which kernels you tried, what hw it is? Can you do s2ram?
>
> Regarding hardware -
>
> 1. AMD Athlon 1700+, VIA KT333 chipset based MB, nVidia GeForce 2
> 2. AMD X2 Athlon, AMD690V chipset based MB, nVidia 7600GT
> 3. (current) AMD X4 Phenom II, AMD780G chipset and nVidia 9600GT
> (binary driver for video card every time)

Ok, binary drivers may be a problem. Will it work without that? Should
be easy to test with init=/bin/bash.
Pavel
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