On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 09:35:24PM -0700, Chris Worley wrote:

In 9.1 the powersave_proxy turned off the USB, in 9.2 it does not. The script is now very small.

Is there a correct way to shutdown and restart USB during a hibernation? I'm getting an error that acpi was unable to stop the kernel usb daemon, and the system won't hibernate.

POWERSAVE_UNLOAD_MODULES_BEFORE_SUSPEND2DISK in /etc/sysconfig/powersave/sleep

Is there a common command to start the hibernation process? I need to

powersave -U

run it from a command as the laptop is docked and I can't hit the proper keys (the "Fn+Suspend' keys are not on the docking stations keyboard). I've made my own script (basically, just"echo 4 >/proc/acpi/sleep"), but

you are completely bypassing the powersave daemon with this.

have been unable to figure the args to powersave_proxy to call it correctly (I think it's 'powersave_proxy "button sleep"' followed by three more args that I can't decipher).

powersave_proxy is basically obsolete and it is no longer packaged in 9.2 IIRC (it is no longer on my system, i have the latest YOU-version of powersave running), there are now many small scripts in /usr/lib/powersave/scripts/ whose names are usable as event names in /etc/sysconfig/powersave/events. There is README.events in the documentation that covers this.

Does suspend to ram work any better than it did in 9.1? Should I try it

Salomonic answer: if you have hardware where it works, it works better than in 9.1.

again or is this still futile (Dell Inspiron 1600)?

If the dell has an ATI or NVidia or Intel graphics chipset, it will probably not be successful. -- Stefan Seyfried