On Fri 02. Jun - 10:26:08, David Zeuthen wrote: > On Fri, 2006-06-02 at 11:02 +0200, Alexander Larsson wrote: > > Some systems also have a mode where they both save to disk and memory > > at the same time, then they suspend, but if power goes low they power > > down (and un-hibernate on startup). > > You may be referring to Windows Vista, that's the only place I've heard > of this feature. For the record, I think this is purely done in software > but I'm not aware of any free operating system (e.g. based on Linux, > FreeBSD or Solaris) that does this yet. I've heard of hackers playing > around with it getting mixed results though.
http://suspend.sourceforge.net does this already with good results. > > It's a nice feature though and if done right I think the user probably > won't even notice that it hibernates before suspending (suspend to disk > can indeed be very fast but on Linux it's not unless you use suspend2). > > > Wouldn't it make sense to support a mode like that too? > > Of course it would make sense to support this feature in an OS but I > don't think it's something that should be exposed in this interface as > the Suspend(), Hibernate() methods are in the org.fd.PowerManager > interface purely convenience for conduits used by the desktop > environment. As an example, we use this in Fedora for the "Sleep" and > "Shutdown" items in the System menu on the panel. > > The only reason we have both Suspend() and Hibernate() is because the > user experience of respectively Suspending and Hibernating is different > and I'm not sure, if done right, that SuspendAndHibernate() would be > vastly different from Suspend(). > > But then again... we probably know a lot better once this feature is > available and if it makes sense we could add SuspendAndHibernate() to > the o.fd.PowerManager interface. We could also add it regardless once > the feature becomes available, I'm not opposed to adding it but my > personal view is that it doesn't make sense to add something to an > interface if it doesn't get used by anything. Will be available as soon as kernel 2.6.17 is out. Regards, Holger _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg
