I’ve just fixed my desktop machine (had to buy a new CPU, unfortunately, after the old one died during shipping).
I then upgraded to Red Hat 9 (woo, very nice), switched to KDE for my desktop, and took a look at software suspend (because the machine is too noisy to leave on permanently in the corner of the living room).
However, the latter won’t work with my video card; instead, the machine reboots continually when resuming from suspend. Problem.
A bit of thinking about the problem came up with a nifty solution… I’d heard of folks using a VNC server for their main desktop, in order to connect to it from any machine they found themselves near, and not be ‘tethered’ to one particular desktop machine. The same system also means I can run my desktop with a virtual display, and just ‘connect’ to this from the real one. Then, when I want to suspend, I can just kill off the X server, suspend, and start up a new one after resume.
If you’re curious about how to do this, read on…