Re: [gentoo-user] tuxonice and suspend-to-ram

2011-02-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 02 Feb 2011 08:17:11 +0100, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Tuxonice also includes kernel patches, so it isn't only using what the kernel provides. You can use the tuxonice scripts with a vanilla kernel, you just miss out on the extra features. Sure. But what are the extras in

Re: [gentoo-user] tuxonice and suspend-to-ram

2011-02-02 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 02.02.2011 09:41, schrieb Neil Bothwick: On Wed, 02 Feb 2011 08:17:11 +0100, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Sure. But what are the extras in S2R-context? What do I miss? The most obvious is the ability to abort a suspend or resume. That was my impression as well. I don't really need that.

Re: [gentoo-user] tuxonice and suspend-to-ram

2011-02-01 Thread Gregory SACRE
Hi Stephan, Frankly, I don't think it would bring anything to you, except maybe the possibility to cancel a suspension on the fly and maybe some check when coming from suspension. I'm using tuxonice only for the suspend to disk, but even there, the kernel has some builtin features that would be

Re: [gentoo-user] tuxonice and suspend-to-ram

2011-02-01 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 01.02.2011 14:55, schrieb Gregory SACRE: Hi Stephan, Frankly, I don't think it would bring anything to you, except maybe the possibility to cancel a suspension on the fly and maybe some check when coming from suspension. I'm using tuxonice only for the suspend to disk, but even

Re: [gentoo-user] tuxonice and suspend-to-ram

2011-02-01 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 1 Feb 2011 14:55:43 +0100, Gregory SACRE wrote: tuxonice is mainly some wrapping scripts that makes the suspension more feature full than the bare kernel provided but in the end, they still use what the kernel provides. Tuxonice also includes kernel patches, so it isn't only using

Re: [gentoo-user] tuxonice and suspend-to-ram

2011-02-01 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 02.02.2011 00:33, schrieb Neil Bothwick: On Tue, 1 Feb 2011 14:55:43 +0100, Gregory SACRE wrote: tuxonice is mainly some wrapping scripts that makes the suspension more feature full than the bare kernel provided but in the end, they still use what the kernel provides. Tuxonice also

[gentoo-user] tuxonice and suspend-to-ram

2011-01-25 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Greets, I use suspend-to-ram all the time on my desktop-machine as well. Energy-saving and quicker for me ... it works fine. I use the tuxonice-sources for this, back then it was more reliable with my hardware. Usually the ebuild for tuxonice-sources is some weeks later than gentoo-sources. As