Hibernate Ubuntu 13.04 Lenovo X1

Question

I understand that the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 ultrabook supports hibernation, however I cannot work out how to get it working. I have already created a swap partition. I tried to run sudo pm-hibernate, but it has no effect.

Edit.....................

upower -d | grep can-hibernate

output

can-hibernate:   no

for

free-m

output

               total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
  Mem:          7687       3399       4287          0         88       1936
  -/+ buffers/cache:       1375       6312
  Swap:         7887          0       7887

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 23 '13 at 05:13

Do you want to Suspend to RAM or Disk? (suspend to RAM is faster and requires power ONLY to ram)?

More details:

pm-suspend
           During suspend most devices are shutdown, and system state is saved
           in RAM. The system still requires power in this state. Most modern
           systems require 3 to 5 seconds to enter and leave suspend, and most
           laptops can stay in suspend mode for 1 to 3 days before exhausting
           their battery.
pm-hibernate
           During hibernate the system is fully powered off, and system state
           is saved to disk. The system does not require power, and can stay
           in hibernate mode indefinitely. Most modern systems require 15 to
           45 seconds to enter and leave hibernate, and entering and leaving
           hibernate takes longer when you have more memory.

NOTE: there is also a hybrid mode which is in between suspend to RAM and Disk.

Find what states are supported by your laptop, for example (supports both to ram and disk):

cat /sys/power/state
mem disk

You can do it from command line anyway:

Option 1: use pm-utils (need to install the package and user needs to have privilege to do suspend)

Suspend to RAM: sudo pm-suspend

Hibernate (to Disk): sudo pm-hibernate

Option 2: directly change sysfs (requires root privilege)

Suspend to RAM: echo "mem" > /sys/power/state

Hibernate (to Disk): echo "disk" > /sys/power/state

Refere to System Power Management State

Hibernate Ubuntu 13.04 Lenovo X1

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