Comments on: Home Fileserver: Suspend

By: chris

chris — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 09:33:41 +0000

suspend (hibernate) works for me using a amd x2 245 on an asus m4n78-vm.
keyboard won’t wake the box up, but a push of the start button will.

network works using the tip by Jason Fiset (Can’t thank him enough!!
I’d have bought another card without his great advice) at
http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/hcl/data/systems/details/14867.html

onboard vga works fine by default

cpu is either at 800 MHz or full speed, never in betwen, but that’s ok.

one pb: cpu fan never below 1800 rpm, it’s probably Qfan that’s crap

havent tried WOL yet.

By: Alex

Alex — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 10:09:32 +0000

My view before reading this page is that the network drivers need support WOL (i.e. put the machine into the correct state) before shutting down.. but the suspend mode issue is probably closely related if not the actual root reason.

The solution I eventually went with was to plug a USB power switch into my low-power server that’s on 24/7 to share internet connection, etc and control it from there: http://www.cleware.de/produkte/p-usbswitchC-E.html

This had the advantage for me that I have wired up a four-way adaptor to it so I can plug in a mains-powered extractor fan to help with ventilation in my cupboard when the server is in use…

By: Simon

Simon — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 15:42:23 +0000

Hi Ilya,

I think they are gradually improving the suspend/resume support. I’m using SXCE snv_101 and with this build there is a remaining issue with the EN6200LE video driver, but I was following a forum thread on this, and it seems that it should be fixed in build 104 or 105, so I’ll try it out soon — hopefully I’ll find the thread I was reading and discover if it’s been fixed first

If I find the post, I’ll put the link here.

Cheers,
Simon

By: Ilya

Ilya — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 17:55:12 +0000

Simon,
Any better support for suspend/resume in recent builds?

By: Simon

Simon — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 21:28:00 +0000

YY, that sounds like a pity. Could you provide the URL?

By: YY

YY — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 06:21:58 +0000

Hmm…I’ve read on the net that suspend works on Intel only systems. I unfortunately also have an AMD based system like you so unless I swap out my motherboard and CPU it looks like suspend is still going to be an issue

By: Simon

Simon — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 16:26:41 +0000

Hi YY, I have no news as I didn’t retry this yet. Perhaps when I move to snv_94 I might give it another try and will post my results here.

Simon

By: YY

YY — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 05:35:10 +0000

Any news yet on the suspend / resume issue with OpenSolaris?

By: Simon

Simon — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 18:26:53 +0000

Unfortunately, I’m not using suspend/resume due to the inability to make the hardware I have resume. I think it’s a problem with the video driver, but I’m not certain. I just switch the server on when it’s required. Hopefully, Sun will get suspend/resume working properly in OpenSolaris.

By: Jim

Jim — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 04:23:56 +0000

WOL doesn’t work in opensolaris. What solution have you implemented to save energy?