[gobolinux-users] Useful things for laptops

[MLA-Gobo]

On Tuesday 11 July 2006 10:36, Sean Russell wrote:
> On Tuesday 11 July 2006 10:19, Rohan Nicholls wrote:
> > * 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.
    I vote for suspend2. It's not in the kernel, although it may end up being 
included at some point in the not-to-distant future. And while it may be 
useless on desktops, it doesn't take up that much space.
    :Peter