Description of problem: Hibernation and Suspend options should not being shown when using the livecd I accidently did this, and it did weird things with my laptop and I only could get it back to life with an external monitor.
Suspend to ram should be okay - since you had issues with video, we probably need to run a tool afterwards to post the video bios or such like. Hibernation could also work if there was swap available. Both of these, then, could be valid options even when working from a live cd. Ideally for hibernation the option wouldn't appear unless we actually can hibernate, but that would need to be fixed upstream.
I also tried suspend to RAM with my Dell Inspiron 6000 running Live f8test3 with mixed results. Booting from CD: Suspend works, resume works but with black screen. Ctrl-Alt-F1 then Ctrl-Alt-F7 fixes this. dmesg shows some errors but nothing fatal it appears. Booting from USB stick: Suspend works, resume seems to work with same black screen (fixable as before) but attempting to run any command that is not in RAM (by being run before the suspend) gives error due to USB stick no longer being mounted/accessible. If anyone wants to look into this I can capture the relevant output from dmesg etc.
> Ideally for hibernation the option wouldn't appear unless we actually can hibernate, but that would need to be fixed upstream. I'd say leave this open till it is fixed then :)
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