On Monday 2007-10-01 23:29:42 Paul Smith wrote: > On 10/1/07, Aaron Konstam <akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > > > When running on the console the command 'pm-suspend', I get > > > the following: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > $ pm-suspend > > > > > > > > Error: kernel cannot suspend to ram. > > > > > > > > $ > > > > > > > > I just looked at pm-suspend's source. This error message means that > > > > in /sys/power/state there's no mem present (try > > > 'cat /sys/power/state' > > > > to see what is supported). > > > > > > > > > $ cat /sys/power/state > > > standby disk > > > $ > > On my machine the above command returns: > > mem disk > > > > So mem is indeed not present on your machine. > > And is it a configuration problem or hardware inability? The last thing you can try is try to reconfigure your BIOS. There are some settings (I have no desktop currently) that enable/disable S1/S2/S3 states and change ACPI/???'s version. Disable legacy USB support (be sure to have PS2 keyboard just in case) and... try... A friend of mine got his PC suspending to RAM after changing something in the BIOS, but I never asked what exactly. Luck. -- Regards, Doncho N. Gunchev, GPG key ID: 0EF40B9E, Key server: pgp.mit.edu
