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List:       mandrake-expert
Subject:    Re: [expert] Dell laptop hangs with 9.2 when lid closed. SOLVED!!
From:       Mofeed Shahin <shahin () labf ! org>
Date:       2003-11-12 7:44:35
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> On Wednesday 12 Nov 2003 12:23 am, Mof wrote:
>> On Wed, 12 Nov 2003 09:47 am, James Sparenberg wrote:
>> > On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 12:43, Anne Wilson wrote:
>> > > On Tuesday 11 Nov 2003 2:37 pm, Jack Coates wrote:
>> > > > With the extra information of not attempting resume allowing it
>> to boot, I'll wager that your swap contains a corrupted system
>> image and is unusable as swap. free will show you no swap
>> available. swapoff, format /dev/hda5, swapon.
>> > >
>> > > If you are right about swap containing a corrupted imate, what can
>> he do about it?
>> >
>> > swapoff /dev/hdaX mkdswap /dev/hdaX (your swap partition) swapon
>> /dev/hdaX   Then create a second swap partion about 10-20% larger
>> than ram and use it for suspend not the normal swap.
>>
>> I looked at free, and all the swap was free, but  I formated it
>> anyway to make sure. (I did format both swap partitions to be sure as
>> well) It still hangs when the lid is closed.
>>
> Did you make the second swap, as James suggested?

Yes, I now have 2 swap partitions.
/dev/hda5 which is 768M
/dev/hda7 which is 1G

/dev/hda5 is my real swap partition.

Mof.




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