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Cool that somebody started an article on that. Just by coincidence I also made my experience with Suspend2 tonight. I will add details I discovered soon (NVidia stuff, Sound stuff).

Are you sure about the need of the acpi package? I don't even have it and my system suspends just fine. The powersave package has a dep on acpi, not the hibernate scripts though, AFAIK.

As for the possibility of executing the script as a user: Couldn't the permissions of the hibernate script be changed so that members of the "power" group (seems to exist by default) can execute it.

Anyone tried out Gnome Power Manager already - does it play nice with the hibernate scripts?

ACPI is definitely not needed. You can run hibernate as a user via sudo. But powersaved >= 1.12 supports hibernate, so you could do it with kpowersave and/or gnome-power-whatever. brain0 04:55, 7 June 2006 (EDT)

Has anyone tried suspend to disk with encryption e.g. as described here? Are there other ways to encrypt the suspend image?

[edit] outdated

package kernel26-suspend2 was removed from the official repo. (see here http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=38578 )