Hi, I've been using the OpenSUSE 10.2 Live DVD for doing s2ram testing. While not as quick or as minimal as a real Linux install it does still allow you to get some useful results back and I thought I'd write the simple steps I used to help other people who might want to test a similar way.
At the graphical boot menu, boot to runlevel 1 by highlighting either the GNOME or KDE option then typing 1 followed by return. This should eventually put you at a text console which you can log into. From here you can do console testing. For doing (open source driver) X testing, boot to the console above and then run /etc/init.d/earlysax2 to create a /etc/X11/xorg.conf . You can then use xinit to get an X with a simple xterm on it. This is not as minimal an environment as init=/bin/sh but it isn't too bad as there is still a lot that isn't loaded (it also stops the boot process quicker than a regular live CD boot). Please also note that while this environment may work without problem a regular boot may still go on to lock the machine up on suspend due to bugs in other modules (e.g. the tg3 network card driver would not be loaded in the above tests). -- Sitsofe | http://sucs.org/~sits/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Suspend-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/suspend-devel
