Suspend/hibernation/sleep of laptop on FC4?

[William John Murray]

> 
> Hi all,
> 
> The last item to tackle on my new laptop is to figure out how to get it
> to go into some sort of standby mode when I either close the lid,
> briefly press the power button or right click on the battery icon and
> select suspend. I have googled around but haven't really found the one
> stop shop how to do it. I've read that "suspend to disk" is only
> supported with the patches from http://swsusp2.net/ but Dave Jones'
> stance ("My comments on swsusp are largely unprintable" don't really
> inspire confidence. See
> https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2004-October/msg01375.html)  
> 
> So I have a few questions:
> 
> 1) what is supported by the latest FC4 update kernel (2.6.13-1526)?
> 2) how can I make the parts that are supported (and safe) work on FC4?
> 3) according to one report the kernel parameter "acpi_sleep=s3_bios" can
> result in filesystem corruption on 2.6.12. Does that apply to the FC4
> kernels too? See:
> http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Installing_Fedora_Core_4_on_a_ThinkPad_X41_Tablet#Suspend
> 
> If possible I would like the power button to act as follows:
> - press it briefly and go into some sort of standby
> - press it longer and shut down the laptop
> 
> On the laptop I also have a key combination (Fn-F4) that supposedly
> generates an ACPI sleep message. Would be nice if I could use that one
> too.
> 
> Many thanks for any pointers.
> 
> Regards,
> Patrick
> 
 Hi Patrick,
       I am very happy with the kernels from Matthias Hensler:
http://mhensler.de/swsusp/
  But you do have to install them one by one.
 Works for me.
   Bill