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Ubuntu 8.04.2 LTS released

deleteme — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 02:13:15 +0000

Just buy Linux friendly hardware... My thinkpads has been suspending fine since 2005.

Ubuntu 8.04.2 LTS released

Cato — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 10:16:31 +0000

It's also worth noting that Windows XP support for docking stations is not perfect either - on my Dell Latitude D600 (quite an old model) I could never use a docking station with confidence that Windows would not lock up and crash, and on a newer ThinkPad x61 with Windows, I can only safely use the docking station if I eject without suspending, and then suspend separately. And even then sometimes it doesn't work...

Ubuntu 8.04.2 LTS released

sim0nx — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 21:40:05 +0000

A week ago I upgraded my laptop (Asus, Debian lenny, nvidia, 2.6.28.1) and
was surprised that when I closed the lid while it was on battery power, it
went into suspend mode... Haven't had configured anything regarding
suspend...

When I opened it again everything was working fine, even wifi (iwl3945).

I immediately tested it on my desktop (same kernel, same distro, nvidia),
and to my surprise it worked there as well.

That was very surprising as I had been struggling with that for a long time
until I gave up, and nowadays it actually works out of the box !

Ubuntu 8.04.2 LTS released

Sly — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 17:18:42 +0000

when Kubuntu 8.04.02 ?

Ubuntu 8.04.2 LTS released

tarjei — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 14:08:02 +0000

I've had good experiences with suspend on Lenovo T60/T61 Thinkpads using Ubuntu 8.04.

The problems I've had can be traced to moving between multiple dockingstations and also bad batteries.

Ubuntu 8.04.2 LTS released

mjthayer — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 08:25:59 +0000

Is there a distro where suspend and resume work reliably? (The question is serious, not sarcastic). It works reasonably well on Windows (though my wife has given up on that with her laptop after bad experiences) because every maker test that. But it is an order of magnitude harder for a Linux distribution to test against all available hardware, unless they have a very efficient user feedback circuit.

Ubuntu 8.04.2 LTS released

muwlgr — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 08:12:55 +0000

Really, suspend/resume in [K]Ubuntu 8.04 is still not tested well enough.
For example, on my Asus Z99Le, the screen brightness is not restored (have to tune it back, then forward again), also disk mode (you know, this hack with hdparm -B254 to reduce load cycles). Moreover, on initial system startup, my screen for some reason gets dimmed when GUI&kdm start. Only getting back its brightness when KDE power manager starts in user's session. Otoh, that might be only me, not digging deep enough in ACPI scripts debugging :>