suspend/resume wish

suspend/resume wish

Posted May 1, 2007 23:55 UTC (Tue) by tialaramex (subscriber, #21167)
In reply to: suspend/resume wish by plink
Parent article: Dude, you're getting Ubuntu (Linux.com)

As another reply illustrates, it's already getting a lot better. My Z60m suspends and hibernates correctly and reliably, although there was a Fedora kernel update which didn't work with suspend-to-RAM and I had to hibernate instead for a week or two until they fixed it.

My home desktop (an ex-work P4 machine) also suspends either way, which makes up for the fact that it doesn't have much power saving technology (idles at 60W or so, suspend to RAM reduces that by 90%)

I think we're seeing the same effect as with SMP, there's more hardware out there which can support this kernel feature, users start to get used to having it, which means they file bugs when it doesn't work, which in turn helps to improve the quality of the drivers and so on.

What I'd like to see coming through is better application support. Unlike Windows, we're not in the position of having application vendors blocking suspend (Vista at last bans this practice) but we do have applications that could benefit from noticing that they've just been thawed out.

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