My experience with suspend has been thus far universally negative. However, hibernate works just dandy... the only requirement is a swap partition that is larger than your physical RAM.
I can't speak to the Gnome power management system as I've used KDE since 1997. My guess is that the 'under the hood' utilities are the same, but I don't know the applets at all. As for the external VGA, it should be detected by most of the video card drivers out there (although if it's an NVidia, you may want to install the proprietary drivers for it), and there should be a dual head option in your Display configurator that you can go into and simply turn on the 2nd display (although I've heard that 'real men (and women)' write their own xorg.conf :). On mine, I've found that if the external monitor isn't plugged in when I boot up (whether from hibernate or a full on bootup doesn't seem to matter) then X won't talk to it as a 2nd display and I can only switch to it with the function keys. Rubin ----- Original Message ----- From: Rick Bragg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sat, 6/9/2007 6:00pm To: VAGUE@LIST.UVM.EDU Subject: linux and laptops... Hi vague list you may remember me from when I "donated" the services of my thinkpad T43 laptop to the group at the last meeting. after messing with the bios and all, of course everything went well, I'm also glad that nobody fdisked me! Anyway, My questions have to do with power management, and video. I am using gentoo and gnome. I can't seem to get my gnome power manager to work right. when I suspend, it crashes after resume. so I have it set now where I always shut it down. also, I have not yet set up the vga port to work right (like with a projector or second monitor). Does anybody have any advice as to setting up the gnome power manager? Does anybody have a good working sample of xorg.config that I can use? Thanks! rick
