I spent this weekend playing with getting hibernate via suspend2 working on my laptop and getting a xgl/glxcompmgr/compiz demo up and running on my desktop. Both attempts failed basically. Suspend to ram/disk never worked on my laptop even though Ubunutu provides menu options for both. I got a suspend2 patched kernel compiled and rejigged my partition layout to have a bigger swap space partition. Booting to a single user shell with a limited amount of kernel modules installed hibernate on my laptop gets to ~50% and crashes. An FAQ from the suspend2 website indicates this is most likely a problem with an unsupported kernel module. Well Phooey! On the flip side I have configured the booting of Ubuntu on my laptop quite a bit… it’s much faster now; with some services in and out. mmm why doesn’t Ubuntu come with a nice equivalent graphical sysv-rc-conf tool? The xgl/glrxcompmgr/compiz experiment was looking good when i manged to get a wobbly window up and running very briefly – but was flakey and played awfully with the window manger. Mmmm… I discovered quite a cool tune, “Telepopmusik – Just Breathe”, on pandora.

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