TuxOnIce FAQ

Compiled by Bernard Blackham

1. Downloading TuxOnIce

• 1.1 How do I get the latest beta TuxOnIce?
• 1.2 How do I get the latest stable TuxOnIce?
• 1.3 What kernel do I need for the latest TuxOnIce?
• 1.4 How can I tell what version of TuxOnIce my distro's stock kernel came with?

2. Patching the kernel sources

3. Configure/compile problems

4. Compatibility issues

• 4.1 Filesystems.
• 4.2 Does SCSI support work?
• 4.3 Can TuxOnIce be compiled as modules?
• 4.4 nVidia video cards
• 4.5 nVidia GeForce4 card: black screen after resuming, amongst other symptoms
• 4.6 3D: Hibernation occurs correctly, but when I resume my Xserver has lost 3D acceleration.
• 4.7 PCMCIA: It hangs upon resume when restarting pcmcia!
• 4.8 ATI Radeon and DRI support - after resuming X becomes really sluggish
• 4.9 USB issues

5. Using TuxOnIce

• 5.1 TuxOnIce doesn't seem to do anything (or: I upgraded to the latest TuxOnIce and my machine no longer suspends! Instead, it shuts down all drivers, etc and then starts resuming.)
• 5.2 It doesn't power off, but hangs forever.
• 5.3 It resumes but hangs. I can't boot any more. Or, my machine reboots forever.
• 5.4 Suspending and resuming takes ages, what can I do?
• 5.5 Can I switch from Windows to Linux using TuxOnIce?
• 5.6 Can I change removable devices while suspended?
• 5.7 Suspension seems to occur correctly, but when I resume the suspend signature is not found.
• 5.8 After resume, why is my clock at the time of suspension?
• 5.9 How can I patch TuxOnIce to have a script launched on resume?
• 5.10 Suspension seems to occur correctly, but when I resume mouse and keyboard are frozen.
• 5.11 It fails to suspend with a message "not enough pages"
• 5.12 How can I get Bootsplash to play with Software suspend nicely?
• 5.13 Resuming complains about a version mismatch.
• 5.14 Is there any way to convince TuxOnIce to free things like disk caches and buffers but nothing else?
• 5.15 Freezer debugging: It hangs at 'Waiting for activity to finish' or 'Syncing remaining I/O'.
• 5.16 I've suspended and resumed and now I can't open new X applications and my /tmp directory is empty (on Debian)
• 5.17 On resume, you get a "BIG FAT WARNING!! Failed to translate the device name into a device id."
• 5.18 My system hibernates but doesn't even try to resume.
• 5.19 System hangs on booting a TuxOnIce kernel (2.6)
• 5.20 It suspends twice every time I hit the power button!
• 5.21 It hangs when "Copying original kernel back"
• 5.22 It hangs when "Reading caches" and I have a Toshiba laptop
• 5.23 Why is having a filesystem mounted at resume-time dangerous?
• 5.24 UserUI: I get "FBIOSPLASH_SETSTATE failed: error code 22" when using the suspend2ui_fbsplash
• 5.25 When suspending it fails with "Failed to initialise the compression transform"

6. Modular TuxOnIce

• 6.1 I get messages about the size of struct module not agreeing when the initrd tries to insert my suspend modules.
• 6.2 The modules are installed fine but the swapwriter complains about not being able to access the suspend device.
• 6.3 How do I update my running kernel modules without rebooting into a new kernel?
• 6.4 How can I update my initrd (initramfs) on Fedora?
• 6.5 How can I update my initrd on Debian?

7. Miscellaneous

• 7.1 What's left to do?
• 7.2 TuxOnIce seems nice, but can I use it for doing snapshots?
• 7.3 I can't capture the oops easily, what should I do?