Re: [arch-general] stability from pm-suspend ?

2010-04-21 Thread Ian-Xue Li
On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 12:57:35PM -0400, Isaac Dupree wrote: Thanks for the detailed reply in advance. On the other hand, sometimes suspend is broken for some hardware. You should be able to observe this pretty easily for yourself. If, on the other hand, it looks like it's working, and if

Re: [arch-general] stability from pm-suspend ?

2010-04-21 Thread Nicky726
Dne úterý 20 dubna 2010 22:00:17 arch-general-requ...@archlinux.org napsal(a): (modulo security considerations, if you keep an encrypted disk and don't want people who get their hands on your computer to be able to read your data! Or just login-password-wise if you're dealing with

Re: [arch-general] stability from pm-suspend ?

2010-04-21 Thread Sergi Pons Freixes
On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 5:27 AM, Ian-Xue Li da.mi.spi...@gmail.com wrote: Security is indeed one problem I'm looking to resolve, because with suspend, it goes back directly into the system, without having to enter login/password... If you are only using X, maybe you could use xlock just

Re: [arch-general] stability from pm-suspend ?

2010-04-21 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 04/20/2010 11:27 PM, Ian-Xue Li wrote: Security is indeed one problem I'm looking to resolve, because with suspend, it goes back directly into the system, without having to enter login/password... I don't think you mentioned which WM/DE you're using. If you're using XFCE (or would

Re: [arch-general] stability from pm-suspend ?

2010-04-21 Thread Byron Clark
On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 10:50:23AM -0600, Gary Wright wrote: On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 9:27 PM, Ian-Xue Li da.mi.spi...@gmail.com wrote: Security is indeed one problem I'm looking to resolve, because with suspend, it goes back directly into the system, without having to enter

Re: [arch-general] stability from pm-suspend ?

2010-04-20 Thread Aren Olson
On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 09:37, Ian-Xue Li da.mi.spi...@gmail.com wrote: I really like to hear some experiences whether that you have been using ACPI S3 kernel suspension for quite some time now, and feels it is really stable and safe to use, or that, you had ran into troubles using them. I

Re: [arch-general] stability from pm-suspend ?

2010-04-20 Thread Ray Kohler
On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 10:37 AM, Ian-Xue Li da.mi.spi...@gmail.com wrote: I really like to hear some experiences whether that you have been using ACPI S3 kernel suspension for quite some time now, and feels it is really stable and safe to use, or that, you had ran into troubles using them.

Re: [arch-general] stability from pm-suspend ?

2010-04-20 Thread Isaac Dupree
On 04/20/10 10:37, Ian-Xue Li wrote: I've been using pm-suspend for temporarily shutting down the computer for later use, but now I raised the question whether it is safe or stable to do so at a constant basis. That is, seldom real reboots and often just suspend. me too, sometimes As you