At 8:37p -0400 on Tue, 11 Mar 2008, Ganesha Bhaskara wrote: > Kevin Hunter wrote: >> 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 ?
Not to get too far OT, but I'll mention that that particular box has an Intel board, but the sleep issue is caused by some of the peripherals. e.g. the nVidia gfx card. There's lots of discussion going on about the sleep issue, especially on http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/ . Unfortunately, it's such a difficult problem (from many aspects) that I think Canonical is basically punting on it right now. (Sleep is the #1 "Most popular ideas ever" item on the brainstorm site, but not specifically address in the "Ideas being worked upon".) I know that it's also a problem in the Windows world as well, and unless you're lucky, generally only works when vendors specifically tune/pick their setup/hardware to be capable of doing just that. Part of that MS tax, I'm sure. The more general, more on-topic issue is how to make sleep "just work". That would save power in a less esoteric way than, say, the tickless kernel. Kevin _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.lesswatts.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
