Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2003 10:04:11 -0700 From: "Cliff L. Biffle" <cbiffle@safety.net> To: Stijn Hoop <stijn@win.tue.nl> Cc: mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: laptop suspend states behaviour Message-ID: <200306261004.11644.cbiffle@safety.net> In-Reply-To: <20030626101011.GA65846@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> References: <20030626101011.GA65846@pcwin002.win.tue.nl>
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On Thursday 26 June 2003 03:10 am, Stijn Hoop wrote: > I'm sorry to say that most of the suspend states aren't very useful. Are > people able to use any suspend method on other laptops? Yes. =46rom following this list, it sounds like ACPI in FreeBSD is horribly brok= en on=20 the vast majority of modern laptops. I am fortunate enough not to own mode= rn=20 laptops. :-) On my Toshiba Satellite 1605, ACPI suspend (to RAM and to disk) works=20 flawlessly. It's worth noting that ACPI suspend-to-disk is several times=20 faster than APM suspend-to-disk. This machine now runs Gentoo, however,=20 because of the lurking M5237 USB bug (which I've finally gotten offers for= =20 help on, six months later, but can't have the downtime required to reinstal= l=20 the OS twice to test). On my IBM Thinkpad 755CX, APM suspend (to RAM and to disk) also works=20 flawlessly, and is much faster than the Satellite since it's maxed out with= =20 40MB of RAM. :-) I recently picked up an HP Pavilion N5290 (like the other two, it died and = was=20 discarded by someone who couldn't solder); it's running Gentoo by default=20 after my issues with USB on the Satellite, so I can't comment there. =20 Hardware suspend doesn't work -at- -all- on it in Linux, but software suspe= nd=20 in their kernel does. You just have to manually patch your kernel to do it= =2E =20 Whee. =2DCliff L. Biffle
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