Hibernate and lack of docs

[poma]

On 09.11.2014 23:38, Martín Marqués wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I was trying to get hibernation working on my F20 laptop with which I work.
> 
> Going through the process, which I thought would be more transparent
> or that it would just be like hitting the hibernation and that's it, I
> found great deficiencies in Fedora (maybe just from the kernel) and
> especially in the docs (or the lack of documentation in this
> particular issue):
> 
> 1) I had trouble getting the system to hibernate. There wasn't
> anything clear about the fact that you needed to have a swap bigger
> than the amount of memory you have. Also, it doesn't work if you have
> a file as swap (which was the easiest way to start testing)
> 
> 2) You need (or at least with my laptop) to add the resume=<swap FS>,
> this I did find information in the docs, but I'm a bit surprised that
> Fedora doesn't give better information about all this during the
> installation process.
> 
> 3) When adding the resume= option to the kernel line in grub you can't
> use UUID like FS. That is a bug IMHO.
> 
> Well that's as much as I remember now.
> 
> At least I now have hibernation working correctly on my laptop.
> 
> Regards,
> 

https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/usb/power-management.txt
https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/power/states.txt
https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/power/basic-pm-debugging.txt
https://01.org/linuxgraphics/documentation/how-debug-suspend-resume-issues-0
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Reference/S3
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Reference/S4