From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 16 10:52:10 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84F1F106566B for ; Fri, 16 May 2008 10:52:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rainer@ultra-secure.de) Received: from bsd.ultra-secure.de (bsd.ultra-secure.de [62.146.20.26]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E3DA18FC1A for ; Fri, 16 May 2008 10:52:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rainer@ultra-secure.de) Received: (qmail 50581 invoked by uid 89); 16 May 2008 10:52:08 -0000 Received: by simscan 1.1.0 ppid: 50565, pid: 50567, t: 3.6122s scanners: attach: 1.1.0 clamav: 0.88.7/m:44/d:4673 spam: 3.1.7 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.7 (2006-10-05) on bsd.ultra-secure.de X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.1.7 Received: from unknown (HELO ?212.71.117.70?) (rainer@ultra-secure.de@212.71.117.70) by bsd.ultra-secure.de with (DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA encrypted) SMTP; 16 May 2008 10:52:05 -0000 Message-ID: <482D6754.9090504@ultra-secure.de> Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 12:52:04 +0200 From: Rainer Duffner User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; de; rv:1.8.1.12) Gecko/20080226 SUSE/2.0.0.12-1.1 Thunderbird/2.0.0.12 Mnenhy/0.7.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Tobias Roth References: <230481.65636.qm@web31707.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <482D4408.5080507@ultra-secure.de> <482D4AE6.5040707@fsck.ch> In-Reply-To: <482D4AE6.5040707@fsck.ch> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Vishwanathan S V N , freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: A modern laptop on which suspend and resume works reliably? X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 10:52:10 -0000 Tobias Roth schrieb: > On 05/16/08 10:21, Rainer Duffner wrote: > > >> AFAIK, any modern laptop (Merom or AMD platform) will have to have the >> 2nd core deactivated to actually have a chance for a working ACPI. >> That doesn't mean that ACPI suspend/resume actually works then, though. >> > > There's a patch been sent a few days ago I think to acpi@ that is a > beginning of a remedy. > > >> Old PowerBooks and iBooks were supposedly the platforms with the best >> suspend-resume track-record. >> > > My 2.5 year old Thinkpad T43p now also works perfectly with 7.0. > > Yep, the T43p seems to be one of those (few) that do work. (I've got a Lifebook E8010 ("Centrino") from maybe 3.5 years ago and ACPI S3/S4 doesn't work right, not even with Ubuntu). However, the OP was asking for a new laptop. I actually hate to bring up the "get a Mac" tagline (I like using FreeBSD on my Lifebook, it's quick to boot, stable and the things I mostly do with it are fast, too) almost everytime this subject comes up. But when you want to have a truely "mobile" computer, working ACPI S3/S4 is essential, IMO. And if it doesn't work with FreeBSD on just about any new laptop, I can't honestly recommend it to anyone for this purpose. Rainer