Thank you all for responding. My main interest was whether others have the problem. A "yes" answer gives me reassurance it isn't unique to me. I'm invoking "hibernate" not "suspend" to totally power down. My box is a Sony Vaio VGN-N220E. lspci is rather lengthy, but I believe the video part is as follows: 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/PM/GMS, 943/940GML and 945GT Express Memory Controller Hub (rev 03) Subsystem: Sony Corporation Device 8212 Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0 Capabilities: [e0] Vendor Specific Information <?> 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) Subsystem: Sony Corporation Device 8212 Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 7 Memory at dc100000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512K] I/O ports at 1800 [size=8] Memory at c0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M] Memory at dc200000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256K] Capabilities: [90] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit- Count=1/1 Enable- Capabilities: [d0] Power Management version 2 00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS/GME, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03) Subsystem: Sony Corporation Device 8212 Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0 Memory at dc180000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512K] Capabilities: [d0] Power Management version 2 As I mentioned, hibernate mostly works, but totally powers down perhaps 1/3 of the time. If someone does realize 100% execution with such a box I'd be interested. Gerry wrote: > > Laptops are very hardware specific, so the problem has a lot to do > with what laptop you have. > Could you provide specs to the list? What brand and make what video > card. Maybe even the output of lspci -v > > Also, how are you kicking off the hibernate? Is it to disk or just the > memory suspend? > > I've struggled with suspend to ram and suspend to disk before with > varying degrees of success, so, "yes" to that question. > > Gerry > (you should Reply to the list to get some more answers) > > On Sat, 11 Oct 2008, rhubarbpie at poetworld.net wrote: >> Hibernate takes my box down stone-cold-dead only 1/3 of the time. >> Usually the I/O light doesn't go out and I have to hold the power >> switch. Hibernate always writes the image, blanks the screen, and >> restore properly. However, I have to do the manual thing often. >> >> This isn't a big problem, but if it's fixable ... I'm running compiled >> Linux From Scratch 6.3 with the 2.6.26 kernel and the TuxOnIce 1.99 >> script. I commonly have an OpenOffice spreadsheet, Thunderbird, and >> Opera up when hibernating (no internet connection). >> >> Again, it's not a huge problem but I don't understand the >> inconsistency. Do others have the problem? >> >