State of the Laptop (part 3)

[kerravonsen]

• suspend-to-disk works but suspend-to-ram doesn't. Well, that's better than nothing at all, which was the state with my previous laptop, so this is good. (Though for some reason, ssh is not restarted after a suspend-to-disk)
• X-Windows works! This was much work, because I needed to upgrade to a bleeding-edge version. So some things don't work, alas, but again, this is better than having nothing. And suspend-to-disk works with X runing too, so this is good.

While I say "X works", there now lies before me the long process of installing all my favourite X applications, and setting up the window manager(s) and so on. Still, we have progress. It is a great relief to have X working, since it is usually the most difficult thing.

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State of the Laptop (part 3)

[deep4t.livejournal.com]

ohhh, pray tell!

this little lappy had suspend-to-ram with suspend2 sort of working, which then broke, then suspend to ram worked fine, now none of them work.
So its "ahh well back the drawing board....Hiho, Hiho..."
This was using the Ubuntu suspend2 guide

please tell the recipe you used to cook your suspend-to-disk?

BTW well done for getting X to work at the same time!

Re: State of the Laptop (part 3)

[kerravonsen]

Well, I'm using GenToo, so the recipe will probably be different.
I followed the "suspend" stuff in the GenToo Power Management Guide http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/power-management-guide.xml

Which basically consisted of
- build the kernel with the suspend stuff in (I just used the standard swsusp, rather than suspend2)
- get the acpi daemon running to recognise various button presses
- installed the "hibernate-script" from portage and configured it
- added (as instructed) the "hibernate-cleanup" script to the boot process
- configured the acpi daemon to call the hibernate script on certain button presses.

Re: State of the Laptop (part 3)

[deep4t.livejournal.com]

The Gentoo procedure is so very similar, except the Ubuntu suspend2 instructions doesn't have a "hibernate-cleanup"
oooo, I wish I had the luxury of a compile box just to make Gentoo.

I'll give it a go over the wend.

new thread really...
While sniffing about for things on Lyx, I found your Lyx page which helped me heaps. Though I couldn't get referencing quite right, could you spare a moment to take a look?
http://deep4t.livejournal.com/430.html
TIA for your comments

Re: State of the Laptop (part 3)

[kerravonsen]

Thanks!

I'm afraid I can't help with the LyX; it seems fairly clear that it's got something to do with your bibliography, since the mysterious percent appears in the references; but I've never used bibiliography stuff with either LyX or LaTeX so I have no more idea than that.