On Mon, 20 Jul 2009, Chris Ball wrote: > Hi, > > > I know the hardware is able to do this, but does the linux system > > actually to this yet? > > Yes. > > > I'm not aware of any sofware build that will sleep while the > > screen is still powered and displaying things. > > Every build since 8.2.0 (last October) does this, if you go to the > Power control panel and turn on Automatic power management. For > more power saving by turning off the wifi chip, turn on Extreme > power management.
my understanding from watching discussions here was that when the system went to sleep it powered down the display, because there was no way to set a timer to wake the system up a little later to then turn off the display. David Lang > For 1.5, we plan to turn this on by default, and decrease the amount > of time we wait before entering suspend. > > - Chris. > _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
