On Wed, Nov 21, 2007 at 12:08 PM, mike ledoux [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
I've had scripts to successfully 'hibernate' (suspend to disk)
my laptops for years, working at least as far back as 2.4-series
kernels. I have yet to see suspend to RAM work on Linux anywhere.
I fit that description.
Ben Scott 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
On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 06:03:31PM -0500, Ben Scott wrote:
A recent review[1] of the Asus Eee PC stated (paraphrased): Power
management on Linux sucks.
I haven't read the review, but I agree with the statement that power
management on Linux sucks.
Turning off the CRT was about it. S3
On Nov 21, 2007 12:08 PM, mike ledoux [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 06:03:31PM -0500, Ben Scott wrote:
[...]
I have yet to see suspend to RAM work on Linux anywhere.
[...]
I'm especially interested in how it fares for someone like me, who
prefers to run a traditional
On Nov 21, 2007, at 12:08, mike ledoux wrote:
I've had scripts to successfully 'hibernate' (suspend to disk)
my laptops for years, working at least as far back as 2.4-series
kernels. I have yet to see suspend to RAM work on Linux anywhere.
In some ways this is easier. As I understand it,
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
It's better now, for the most part.
A few drivers still don't suspend and resume properly, but there are often
workarounds like removing them before suspending. Utilities like powertop can
help identify what's causing the CPU or other subsystems to be drawing more
power than needed.
Using
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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
