On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 4:34 PM, Kees Cook <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 04:24:11PM -0500, Mackenzie Morgan wrote: >> On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 3:00 PM, Marc Deslauriers >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> > I haven't actually tried this in a long time, but what happens with >> > current Ubuntu when the battery drains out while suspended? >> >> It turns off. >> >> > Does the >> > laptop wake up and enter hibernation to prevent data loss? >> >> No, but the disk does sync before suspend, so corruption isn't a >> worry, just... "oops I didn't save before suspending." > > My newer laptop supports "hybrid" mode, and it will come out of suspend and > then hibernate when the battery is critically low after being suspended for > a long time. Extremely handy.
I know some hardware has BIOS support for that, but I thought the OS needed to understand it too and that Ubuntu was in "not yet" state on that. Is this new? -- Mackenzie Morgan http://ubuntulinuxtipstricks.blogspot.com apt-get moo -- ubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel
