Hmm, modern distros already do this [LWN.net]

Hmm, modern distros already do this

Posted Jun 7, 2006 1:00 UTC (Wed) by Burgundavia (guest, #25172)
Parent article: How to suspend and hibernate a laptop under Linux (Linux.com)

Or you could just use a modern distro like Ubuntu that already does this for you.

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Hmm, modern distros already do this

Posted Jun 7, 2006 1:45 UTC (Wed) by mattdm (subscriber, #18) [Link] (3 responses)

Or you could read the entire paragraph quoted above.

Hmm, modern distros already do this

Posted Jun 7, 2006 9:03 UTC (Wed) by jond (subscriber, #37669) [Link] (1 responses)

Impressive :) I wonder if we need a new acronym to go alongside RTFA...

It's RTFB ...

Posted Jun 7, 2006 13:43 UTC (Wed) by hummassa (guest, #307) [Link]

as in RTF Blurb.

Hmm, modern distros already do this

Posted Jun 7, 2006 18:01 UTC (Wed) by Burgundavia (guest, #25172) [Link]

The article is not "How suspend works on Linux" and thus gives the impression that suspend requires hacking. I was merely emphasizing that it does not.

Hmm, modern distros already do this

Posted Jun 7, 2006 8:15 UTC (Wed) by DYN_DaTa (guest, #34072) [Link]

Ubuntu fanboys, tsk, tsk ... :P

Hmm, obsolete laptop already did this

Posted Jun 7, 2006 11:13 UTC (Wed) by ballombe (subscriber, #9523) [Link] (1 responses)

Or you could buy a old laptop with APM suspend-to-disk support,
and you would not even have to think about drivers, just press
the button. Work flawlessly for me since 1998.

Hmm, obsolete laptop already did this

Posted Jun 8, 2006 18:54 UTC (Thu) by tjw.org (guest, #20716) [Link]

<blockquote type=cite>
Or you could buy a old laptop with APM suspend-to-disk support,
and you would not even have to think about drivers, just press
the button. Work flawlessly for me since 1998.
</blockquote>

No doubt. My good old Sony 505TR suspends and wakes in a fraction of the time of any ACPI machine I've ever seen. Close the lid, it beeps and sleeps, open the lid and press space bar it beeps and is awake almost instantly, never a problem. I just wish I could have that same exact laptop with a 2.0Ghz cpu in it.

Hmm, modern distros already do this

Posted Jun 8, 2006 16:34 UTC (Thu) by etwilson (guest, #8459) [Link]

Except that I do use Ubuntu and suspend and hibernate don't work for me.