ACPI suspend to RAM in FC3T3

Kyrre Ness Sjobak kyrre at solution-forge.net
Sun Oct 17 19:23:01 UTC 2004


urk... ill be out killi'n if my laptop suspended on me just by closing
the lid.... there is a reason most of them has a separate "suspend"
button (and a power button (shutdown) and a lid button (monitor)).

For instace my laptop chrashes when i try to get it back out of s3...
Just imagine. Sombody is writing on an important doc. Then sombody else
slams the laptop shut... Ugh...

søn, 17.10.2004 kl. 21.09 skrev Havoc Pennington:
> On Sun, 2004-10-17 at 21:12 +0300, Paul Ionescu wrote:
> > The ACPI support in the recent kernels is improving all the time, so for
> > the first time I was able to suspend to RAM the FC3T3 with the default
> > stock kernel.
> > I was able to do it with echo 3 > /proc/acpi/sleep or echo mem >
> > /sys/power/state.
> > Is any graphical option to suspend from gnome ? I did not find any beside
> > shutdown, restart, logout. There should be at least other two: suspend to
> > ram and suspend to disk(hibernate).
> > 
> 
> I'm arguing that there should be a "suspend" command [1], that does the
> right thing for apm and acpi, and is consolehelper enabled
> so regular users at the console can run it. I added a comment to
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=121061 suggesting
> this a while back.
> 
> Once we have that it's trivial to connect it to the battstat applet
> right away with only config file changes, and we could pretty easily add
> it to the logout dialog too with some hacking.
> 
> Kind of close to the deadline, though I'm honestly pretty disappointed
> we flunked on fixing this, since it seems pretty much trivial and would
> be a big usability benefit. Though on laptops in principle we have the
> "just close the lid" approach which isn't terrible.
> 
> Havoc
> 
> [1] however we have to think of a name other than "suspend,"
> unfortunately, since suspend is a bash builtin
> 




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