Kevin Hunter wrote: > At 5:52p -0500 on Thu, 06 Mar 2008, Thomas Carnecky wrote: > >> laptop is in sleep I can't ping it. Either I screwed up and didn't >> put the laptop into sleep properly, or something fishy is going on... >> > > No, actually, sleep/suspend2ram/hibernate are flaky at best right now. > I have a couple of laptops with varying distros installed. The sleep > functionality is intermittent at best. For instance, on Gutsy, the > default s2ram install lets me put it to sleep, but it won't wake > up. I may be wrong, but here is my theory ...... Intel boards tends to be better integrated (built?) and documented and hence tend to be more consistent than other boards as far as suspend/resume goes. Perhaps the folks working on LessWatts can comment on this ?
-G > After downgrading the kernel and the installed uswsusp to .3, > I am able to make it go to sleep /and/ wake up. Err, sometimes. > Every ~ 5 times, I have to hard reboot. > > As more directly regards your "something fishy" statement, I often will > put the laptop to sleep, and wake up in the middle of the night as it > randomly decides it's time to wake up again. Sometimes it stays on, > other times it cycles between sleeping and waking, which messes > with /my/ sleep. Something fishy *is* going on. > > >> I don't need sleep that badly, so I'll wait for the next kernel >> release. >> > > Then you're a lucky notebook user. I lose a good ten to fifteen > minutes each day just starting up and shutting down my computer > (multiple times adds up), not to mention unneeded wear and tear on my > hdd. > > Kevin > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.lesswatts.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.lesswatts.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
