[NBLUG/talk] EEE PC and EEEBuntu Hibernate...

[Jordan Erickson]

I used to use EEEbuntu on my 701.. I believe it doesn't turn the swap 
partition on by default because of the SSD and fears of wasting its life 
swapping in and out. You might just need to have the swap partition 
activate upon bootup, or maybe create a script to activate it whenever 
you call hibernation.

I'm running normal Ubuntu on my EEE now (the ibex) and I found it easy 
to get all the hardware working. I don't see much of a need for EEEbuntu 
anymore. Just mho though.


Cheers,
Jordan

Steve Johnson wrote:
> So I bought an EEE PC the 10" one 1000 I think is the model number.. 
> It's pretty nice, 40Gig SSD (an 8Gig and a 32Gig), 1024x600 screen 
> res, which works great for ssh, email and surfing..  It will quickly 
> become my most used machine, but....  I can't get hybernate working.. 
> I get an error when it tries to hibernat the "PM: can't find a swap 
> partition, try swapon -a"  (Or something like that, I am typing this 
> from memory.. the EEE is at home, and I am not. )
>
> Anyways, has anyone had experience getting this to work on the EEE 
> with EEEBuntu?  I checked their forums and followed the advice posted 
> there, but so far no luck..  The system has a 4Gig swap (I read 2x 
> system memory if you want hibernate to work reliably), it's all setup 
> and working, and even shows up when you run 'free'.  I check hibernat 
> conf file, and made sure it was pointing at the device.. Now I am NOT 
> using the UUID in the conf file, but I am also not using that in the 
> fstab.. I am pointing right at the device (/dev/sdb1) I don't see how 
> this could be the problem, but if need be, I will figure out the UUID 
> of the swap and point it at that.. (How do I find the UUID?)
>
> Other than this one hibernate issue, the EEE PC1000 is a pretty slick 
> little portable..
>
> Also, if you are wondering why I went with EEEBuntu instead of the 
> default Xandros install, its mainly because their repos don't have the 
> software I want, and the other reason is I don't care that much for 
> KDE, and I did not see a way to install gnome under their version of 
> Xandros.  :)  So it's just a preference thing. 
>
> Any help is mucho appreciated :)
>
> -Steve
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