tested it successfully on a Lenovo SL510 notebook running LMDE 64-bit XFCE.
Please, note that you will need a functional swap partition for hibernate to work.
First, make sure that the following packages are installed:
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sudo apt-get install acpi acpi-support acpi-support-base acpi-fakekey acpid acpitool pm-utils powermgmt-base hibernate
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sudo apt-get install xfce4-power-manager xfce4-power-manager-data xfce4-power-manager-plugins
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sudo apt-get install gnome-power-manager
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cat /etc/fstab
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gksu gedit /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/resume
between the quotes following the variable GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="resume=/dev/sdax" where x is the swap partition number
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gksu gedit /etc/default/grub
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sudo update-initramfs -u && update-grub
Hibernate should work now. Keep your computing green