[gobolinux-users] Useful things for laptops

[Sean Russell]

On Tuesday 11 July 2006 10:19, Rohan Nicholls wrote:
> some of this is already implemented in KDE, but I don't think so. 
> Please correct me if I am wrong.
>
> * Consistently (mostly) if I close the lid of the laptop it suspends.

Linux does this via ACPI, but you have to enable it and have swsusp 
compiled into your kernel.  So the question becomes, should the kernel 
be compiled with swsusp, and should hibernate be installed, by default?  
These are both useless on desktops.

Hmm... That makes me wonder if the Gobo install scripts could be altered 
to support profiles.

>  I think it starts out suspending to ram and then to the hard drive
> after a certain amount of time.  Open the lid, wait a bit, login and

Linux's suspend-to-RAM has only ever worked on one of the five laptops 
I've owned, and that inconsistently.  I haven't heard of a RAM -> HD 
suspend chain, but it would be nice.  Are you sure that Windows can do 
tihs?

--- SER

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