Hello, Everything I've found on the net (ie: www.linux-laptop.net) is at least a couple of years old. I've left my Dell Inspiron 8600 on all the time (plugged in) so far, but now I'm interested in suspending/hibernation.
Everything I've read, particularly related to the 8600, is that there are problems, but the writings were not recent. I'm particularly interested in what current issues might still exist in the Lenny standard kernel (2.6.26). Since I've read that the video driver is a particularly thorny issue, especially on resume, and I'm using the nvidia legacy drivers, experiences with this driver will be particularly welcome. I have a "GeForce4 Ti 4200 Go AGP 8x" GPU, per lshw. #cat /sys/power/state standby mem disk So it seems that there is support, but does it work out of the box? Any direct experience? Especially with a Dell 8600? I have a very busy desktop and don't want to risk losing all the information by pressing the lid button (for instance) and then have to do a dirty reboot. Can someone reassure me that hibernation/suspend works on Lenny? I have noticed that the boot process looks for a resume image at some point, but the KDE control panel doesn't seem to have a "power control" entry, like I've read should be there. Can someone tell me if Fn+Esc (Fn+Suspend in blue lettering) works as it should on the 8600? Then, how do you resume? Just press the power button? # cat /proc/acpi/wakeup Device S-state Status Sysfs node LID S3 *enabled PBTN S4 *enabled PCI0 S3 disabled no-bus:pci0000:00 USB0 S1 disabled pci:0000:00:1d.0 USB1 S1 disabled pci:0000:00:1d.1 USB2 S1 disabled pci:0000:00:1d.2 USB3 S1 disabled pci:0000:00:1d.7 MODM S3 disabled pci:0000:00:1f.6 PCIE S4 disabled pci:0000:00:1e.0 >From this I gather that closing the lid puts the computer in suspend-to-ram mode. Correct? And the power button does a suspend-to-disk? But does it work? Or do I risk big-time corruption and a reboot? What exactly is the "standby" mode (in /sys/power/state) and how do you get to it? A. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
