Re: [tlug] linux laptop hibernate question

["Mattia Dongili" <malattia@example.com>]

On Wed, July 11, 2007 7:27 pm, steven smith wrote:
> I have a dual boot thinkpad x40.  It doesn't get used on
> Linux much because at the time I built it, suspend and
> hibernate weren't working well.  Suspend back then (SuSE
> 10.1) crashed the machine and hibernate took as long to
> recover as shutdown/reboot.  There may have been
> installation problems but I never really looked into it.
>
> For the apps I use (perl, cygwin, open office, audacity,
> gvim, firefox/mozilla, thunderbird mostly) I'm ok with XP
> although not proud of it.  The convenience of shutting the
> lid and opening it again more than outweighs the use or not
> of Linux on this box.  On windows sleep/wake up only take a
> few seconds.
>
> However, I'm reconsidering.  Debugging Perl under windows is
> a royal-pain-in-the-kazoo.  Does anyone have experience with
> hibernate/suspend on linux.  Are the hibernate/suspend
> features working better than they were.  Should I upgrade to
> a more recent release of Linux?

Yes, you should try to upgrade. Don't know which kernel used suse 10 but
usually thinkpads are well supported by linux and I'd be really surprised
if suspend to ram doesn't work at all on X40s as many develpers use them
for thier tests. AFAIK x40 had s2ram working since at least a couple of
years and I was tempted to buy one of them exactly because of that.

cheers
-- 
mattia
:wq!