suspend to ram in etch

[Eudoxus]

I recently I reinstalled Etch. Everything works fine. The only problem is, that i forgot how I enabled suspend to ram last time (it was some months ago, right after the release of Etch). I know that it worked and I know that it works (it suspends when I code echo "mem" > /sys/power/state). I tried alls the possible howots on Debian user forums but nothing works. Can anybody give some hints about the issue?

[Vergil83]

Did you do anything special or was it just a program install. You might try installing uswsusp

[Eudoxus]

As far as I can tell, I have all the relevant packages installed (besides uswusp I got hibernate acpi and so on). Last time I got suspend working I remember editing some configuration file. I gathered the tip by googling around. Unfortunately, I cannot find the same howto anymore.

[Eudoxus]

Strange. I just removed uswsusp from my system and now I am able to suspend to ram and hibernate. However suspend to ram does not work properly. When I try to resume I get black screen and the only thing that helps is logging out. The strange thing is that when I try to suspend manually by coding
echo "mem" > /sys/power/state
everything works fine. Obviously, there are two different methods used in both cases and the problem is, how to get working the right one.

[Vergil83]

Well, half way there. Sadly suspend/hibernate on Linux sucks big time. I have a Dell notebook with the opposite problem. Suspend yes, hibernate no.

[Eudoxus]

Nice! I found the solution of the problem. It was pretty simple. I just installed powersaved package and that's it. It works like charm now. Etch is great!
However, I find it a bit strange, because I use Gnome, but powersaved, as far as I know is part of KDE kpowersave equipment. Of course, I am glad, that it works finally.