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Hi everyone.

I have ThinkPad T61p with nVidia Quadro FX570m running Debian Squeeze AMD64 with liquorix kernel and proprietary nVidia driver. Suspend to RAM works flawlessly, but not suspend-to-disk.

When I tell it to hibernate in KDE it appears to write some big chunk of info on disk and then shutdown. When I press the power button to resume here is what happens:
1) machine goes through POST, gets to GRUB, loads kernel;
2) moment after GRUB's "Loading" message screen goes black with blinking cursor in the left top corner while showing disk activity;
3) after few seconds machine makes short beep and disk activity indicator turns off;
4) after few more seconds machine makes long beep and black screen with blinking cursor changes to completely blank screen;
5) at this point machine doesn't respond to anything but holding power button for 4 seconds, not even the magic SysRq.

Logs don't seem to show anything related to thawing after hibernation, only successful hibernation and then boot after holding power for 4 seconds, so I suspect there may be problem with mounting disks. I do have / on LVM and liquorix kernel, but I had exactly the same problem while using usual / and /home partitions and stock Debian testing kernel.

I've searched mailing lists and forums for days, but so far I'm yet to solve this issue. I would greatly appreciate if someone can help me find the solution.

Well, guess what - thanks to fgarcia101 in this topic I learned that apparently I'm too impatient, as after almost four minutes and two more long beeps system finally resumed, taking eight times longer than from cold boot to desktop. I guess issue is partially resolved.

It's already good to be able to fold notebook in the middle of the work and be sure that you can continue your work an hour later without relaunching whole bunch of programs. Still, is there any way to speed up resume so that it will be at least comparable time-wise to cold boot?

MooNWalker wrote:Still, is there any way to speed up resume so that it will be at least comparable time-wise to cold boot?

Tux-On-Ice. But in my experience, suspend-to-disk is never worth it. S3 works fine for pretty much everything, and since the power drain is pretty low, I tend to use that when carrying my machine about. For everything else I just shut the machine off -- it's not like a cold boot takes that long...