On Dec 7, 2009, at 10:00 AM, Frederic Crozat <fcro...@mandriva.com> wrote:
> Le 06/12/2009 05:24, Victor Lowther a écrit : >> PM-utils 1.3.0-rc1 is not available for testing. Notable changes >> from >> the pm-utils 1.2 series: >> >> * We now have a suspend-hybrid method that does not rely on >> tuxonice or >> userspace suspend/resume. It initially suspends the box, and sets an >> alarm to wake up in 15 minutes. If the system is not resumed >> before the >> alarm goes off, it will wake up and hibernate. You should be sure >> hibernate works before using this mode -- if the system fails to >> hibernate, it will not go back to sleep on its own (working around >> this >> involves better reporting from the kernel about the last sleep >> state -- >> I have a patch forthcoming for that), and if you cannot resume from >> hibernate you may as well have not even tried to hibernate in the >> first >> place. > > One thing to keep in mind (it might be more needed for g-p-m and KDE > equivalent) : users might think they laptop are really > "off" (harddisk not running) and moving it in a backpack or whatever > and the "hibernate part" could be started while laptop is not a > "physicaly" stable position. Maybe g-p-m / kpowersave should warn > users the first time they enable "hybrid" suspend (with explanation > on the timeout).. It is not an issue for g-p-m right now because it does not expose hybrid suspend at all. I do not know if kpowersave does - I have not used kde since the mid 1990's. > > -- > Frederic Crozat > Mandriva _______________________________________________ devkit-devel mailing list devkit-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/devkit-devel
