debianRecently I decided to switch to Debian from Ubuntu mainly because I felt that Ubuntu is getting slow. Of course the obvious disadvantage is that there will be things that won't work out-of-the-box. One of the items on the menu to be tweaked and hacked is suspend and hibernate. Now I really don't use hibernation, but just suspension. So what I've shown you here may work for hibernating. I just don't know b/c I'm too lazy to test it. Sorry.

I heavily consulted this tutorial and this advice given on the Debian forum.

1. In a terminal, type su and then enter your root password.
2. Type gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf
3. Add the following under the “Device” section:
Option “NvAGP” “1″ Then save and close.
4. Type gedit /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist
5. Add the following, save, and close:
blacklist intel_agp
blacklist agpgart
6. Type gedit /etc/default/acpi-support
7. Change the following values to be as shown, save, and exit.
  • ACPI_SLEEP=true
  • ACPI_HIBERNATE=true
  • SAVE_VBE_STATE=false
  • POST_VIDEO=false
  • SAVE_VIDEO_PCI_STATE=true
7. If you're using Compiz, do the following in the terminal:
gconftool –set /apps/compiz/general/screen0/options/sync_to_vblank 0 –type bool
8. Type gedit /etc/pm/config.d/suspend
9. To be able to reload the wireless driver, add the following, save, and exit.
SUSPEND_MODULES=ath_pci
Change the part "ath_pci" to whatever wireless driver you are using. I have an Atheros AR5212 wireless card and by default, Lenny uses ath5k driver. I downloaded the madwifi driver and followed this instruction, and then blacklisted ath5k in the /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist file. The ath5k driver seemed to be slower and unreliable for some reason.

Hope this helps somebody. It certainly helps me to have this written for my future reference :)
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Posted by tak, filed under linux. Date: November 8, 2008, 4:33 pm |

3 Responses

  1. Romario Says:
    July 20th, 2009 at 1:33 am

    Thank you very much.
    I had this problem with Atheros ethernet (ath_pci).
    Bye.

  2. Kenny Says:
    May 30th, 2010 at 12:15 pm

    Thank you!

    This was useful for me when I installed Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. Didn’t have to do item 7, but instead did not get it working using compiz, so I installed all packages with compiz in them. (Of ocurse, could also simply disable desktop effects.)

    My wireless card is a Dell TrueMobile 1150 (orinoco_cs driver). To get it working, see: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/498336/comments/93

  3. HolmanDeidre Says:
    July 11th, 2010 at 10:27 pm

    I guess that to get the loans from banks you should have a great motivation. But, once I’ve got a small business loan, because I wanted to buy a car.

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