On 5/5/06, DJA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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.
Suspend without a working resume is kind of useless, isn't it? Might
as well just shut the whole thing down, and turn it on the next time
you want to use it. If that doesn't work, you have bigger problems.
By the way, isn't the laptop equivalent of a reset button: "remove
battery, wait a few seconds, replace battery"?
carl
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