---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Tyson Sawyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Nov 20, 2007 6:53 PM Subject: Re: Lower power portable Linux To: Ben Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
S3 w/Ubuntu 7.04 on a Dell Latitude D820 is pretty good, but not perfect. Sometimes wireless or something like that might not recover, but its definitely good enough to configure the computer to suspend to ram instead of crash or power-down if it runs out of batter while unattended. That way I don't loose the state of my apps. Its also good enough that I sometimes use it. ...but since I don't fully trust all devices to work correctly after a suspend, I normally power it off. I just (3 days ago) updated to Ubuntu 7.10 and it is at least as good. I haven't tested it enough to know if it is better or not. Cheers! Ty On Nov 20, 2007 6:03 PM, Ben Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A recent review[1] of the Asus Eee PC stated (paraphrased): Power > management on Linux sucks. > > [1] http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2007/11/16/review_asus_eee_pc/print.html > > Back when I looked into this (years ago), that was largely true. > During active use, Linux was more power efficient vs Windows, but when > the machine was fully idle, Linux did little to save even more power. > Turning off the CRT was about it. S3 (suspend-to-RAM) was often > prevented by drivers. S4 (suspend-to-disk) was experimental, > unstable, and/or just plain didn't work. > > Can anyone who has played with this more recently comment on how a > modern Linux distro does on today's hardware? > > I'm especially interested in how it fares for someone like me, who > prefers to run a traditional *nix window manager and logon, without > session management and a desktop environment and a bunch of extra > daemons and so on. > > -- Ben > _______________________________________________ > gnhlug-discuss mailing list > gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org > http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/ > -- Tyson D Sawyer A well-schooled electorate being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and read Books shall not be infringed. -- Tyson D Sawyer A well-schooled electorate being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and read Books shall not be infringed. _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
