[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is it ok to leave a laptop on all the time?
I burned a fan out on a laptop I did that with.
I don't know if that Dell was defective or if laptop
fans are just wimpier than desktop fans.
BTW, I guess it is time to learn all this power management
stuff for Linux. Does anyone here have that down cold
so they happily can do all the goodies in Linux?....hibernate,
suspend, etc. ???
Was it hard to get set up and understood?
Chris
As far as I can tell from following the ACPI4Linux developers mailing
list for about a year, there are very few to no laptops on which all
modes of hibernate and suspend work under Linux.
How well it works on your laptop at any given time depends on the
particular brand (ODM), model, version of Linux, and installed drivers.
All those things have to work together for suspend to work properly.
Mostly what works is suspend. Resume is where the problems lie. Commonly
there is no way to bring the laptop out of resume in a usable state. The
worst that can happen is that not only can you not bring it out of
suspend, but you can't turn it off. At that point you realize how
important a reset button is. And that your laptop doesn't have one.
Unless you can find someone else with the same laptop who has got theirs
to work as well as possible, then it's up to you to be the trailblazer.
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