Why doesn't my laptop suspend?

Why doesn't my laptop suspend?

Posted Aug 8, 2003 22:24 UTC (Fri) by otterley (guest, #3500)
Parent article: Trip report: the Ottawa Linux Symposium

Lack of consistent suspend/resume features isn't the only thing missing from Linux laptop support. Also missing is the ability to adequately deal with docking stations. Windows has the capability to change hardware profiles -- not quite on-the-fly, but definitely across a suspend/resume cycle -- and Linux has no such capability at present.

Lots of user-level support will be needed to handle this too. For example, the window system will have to handle a display connection and disconnection -- when the laptop is docked, it will likely be plugged into a monitor with a higher resolution and different H/V frequency ranges. All without shutting down and restarting the X server.

As you can see, we have a long way to go.

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