On Sat, 2003-02-08 at 19:16, Chmouel Boudjnah wrote: > Adam Williamson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I think bugs like this indicate the current state of ACPI is inadequate. > > We don't really want to ship a distribution which appears, to laptop > > users, to have no power management support. There really needs to be > > some kind of improvement. Ideally, DrakX should somehow determine if > > it's running on a laptop and have the appropriate ACPI modules loaded > > during startup; then we could institute some kind of blacklist for > > laptops on which ACPI doesn't work. But the current state of affairs is > > not satisfactory. The documentation for ACPI is atrocious, and users > > simply won't know to load the ac, battery etc. modules. > > at this time suspend is handle with swsusp you can try to download the > swsusp script from http://swsusp.sourceforge.net/ and use it, it will > be done by the release (i hope).
That's not what I'm talking about, I just mean basic stuff like battery levels (which you don't get with the current ACPI implementation unless you *manually* get the ac and battery modules loaded). Does swsuspend apply to suspend-to-RAM? I thought it was just suspend-to-HD. -- adamw