I have a Dell Inspiron 5000 and ever since RedHat 7.3, suspend has been broken. But, under Gentoo and Debian it works great! Better, in fact, than Windows ever did. And, I understand that if you compile your own kernel (I can give you a .config file), you can make it work under RedHat too.
The real question, as Gary asked, is whether your laptop supports APM or ACPI. Mine is APM. Suspend to disk is in experimental mode in the 2.5 kernel right now. Look for it in a year. :) --Dave <quote who="Matthew Larson"> > Has anybody out there ever been able to successfully suspend a Linux > session on a laptop? If so, how difficult is it? Is there a utility > that does it? > > When I right-click my battery monitor in Gnome, I'm given the option to > suspend my computer. However, when I take that option, I get a message > that states, "Suspend wasn't setup correctly in the preferences. Please > change the preferences and try again." Well, I can't seem to find > anything related to suspending my computer in my preferences or in my > system settings. > > I have been able to hit the sleep button on this thing, and get some > results, but I get a few undesirable results. For example, my ethernet > card stays on when I suspend, but stops working when I wake the computer > back up. > > Also, Is it possible to suspend to disk? Theoretically, I believe its > possible to suspend both a windows session and a Linux session to disk > in parallel, enabling me to jump between each session quickly. > > I'm running RH 8 on a Dell Inspiron 4000. > > Thanks, > > Matthew Larson > > > > ____________________ > BYU Unix Users Group > http://uug.byu.edu/ > ___________________________________________________________________ List > Info: http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
