[mythtv-users] Suspend to RAM

[Jan Schneider]

Zitat von Peter Lord <peter at plord.co.uk>:

> On Thursday 26 March 2009 21:18:32 Geoffrey Leach wrote:
>> On 03/26/2009 11:29:15 AM, Peter Lord wrote:
>> > Hi All,
>> >
>> > I'm currently setting up a combined frontend/backend mythtv box - I'm
>> > nearly
>> > there :-), but I have a few outstanding questions.  I'll post them
>> > individually.
>> >
>> > I'm using .21-fixes from
>> > http://www.avenard.org/media/Ubuntu_Repository/Ubuntu_Repository.html
>> > on a
>> > M3N78-VM based system.
>> >
>> > Although I have the system shutting down when idle and starting up
>> > before the
>> > next record, the cycle is fairly slow.  So I would like to suspend to
>> > RAM
>> > instead of the shutdown.  However, using hibernate-ram, I'm not
>> > getting very
>> > far ... typically I end up with a blank screen with a flashing cursor
>> > in the
>> > top left corner.
>> >
>> > Is there a recipe to follow to get suspend to RAM working with a
>> > combined
>> > frontend/backend with USB DVB drivers and nvidia ?  Or am I expecting
>> > too much
>> >
>> > :-)
>>
>> Are you able to suspend/resume outside of MythTV?  I recently tracked
>> down a problem with the same symptoms that turned out to be a bug in a
>> USB wireless driver. You might wish to check out the procedure in the
>> kernel's basic-pm-debugging.txt -
>> http://www.mjmwired.net/kernel/Documentation/power/basic-pm-debugging.txt
>
> Many thanks for the link.
>
> Firstly I found that I was resuming immediately - I think this was due to PCI
> wakeup - after disabling that in the bios I got suspend working.
>
> I've also got resume working ... well sort of.  On resume I get a shell but
> lots of I/O errors to my (sata) disk.  So it looks like a sata driver issue.
>
> Googling, it looks like I might need 2.6.19 kernel ... not sure if there is a
> convenient deb for mythbuntu.

I guess you mean 2.6.29? Can you point me to a link? I have similar  
issues, though only with my XFS partition.

Jan.

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