I'm not suggesting the Terminal for everyday usage. I'm just trying to get some hardware and pm-utils stats so we can solve the problem for other users... all that command will do is print out "Supported" or "Not Supported", just as a starting point for the hellish journey ahead of us: Debugging Linux Power Management
On Sun, May 1, 2011 at 11:25 PM, Allan E. Registos < [email protected]> wrote: > On Saturday, 30 April, 2011 09:40 PM, Jasper St. Pierre wrote: > > ====== Suspend instead of Shutdown ====== >> >> Surely this has been discussed extensively, I just want to mention that >> suspend simply does not work for me (tested on two computers, both do not >> wake up correctly). >> > I guess they do not want to listen as I recall. > > >> Generally I like the gnome philosophy of simplifying things by removing >> options. But leaving non-technical users with a default setting that does >> not work is not a good choice. >> > > It should only be a default if we detect you computer can support it. > > Can you give us some hardware details, and try: > > pm-utils --suspend && echo "Supported" || echo "Not supported" > > in a terminal? > > IMO, the presence of "Suspend" should be only available to development > builds(or optional in stable releases). I only once use "Suspend" in my > system because it will mess the system and I will be forced to use the > _reset_ button and I will never use it again as it may physically damage the > Hard Drive. Calling the terminal is just a band aid, it doesn't work at > large. > > Regards, > Allan > > > > _______________________________________________ > gnome-shell-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list > >
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