Suspend/hibernate on systems that don't suspend/resume or hibernate properly

[Michael Knepher]

On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 1:52 PM, Adam Williamson <awilliam at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-04-06 at 11:41 -0700, Michael Knepher wrote:
>> I've tried following the debate over the change to suspend as the
>> visible and default way of managing power, but have not been able to
>> find any resolution of whether the default is expected to remain so on
>> systems that do not either suspend or resume properly or if this is up
>> to the distributions to handle.
>
> Neither, really: it's the default, and if it doesn't work, the idea is
> that we fix that (the failure to suspend). Both GNOME and Fedora are not
> big fans of giant manually-updated blacklists due to previous
> experience.

I can certainly understand that.

>> My understanding is that gnome 3 default is to suspend, then hibernate
>> after a certain period of time.
>
> I don't think it does this (hybrid suspend), it just suspends.

A bit more googling, and all I found was a blog post referring to a
#gnome-shell IRC conversation from late February, reporting that devs
wanted to suspend, then wake up after 30 minutes and suspend-to-disk.
Can't find any other references.

> AFAIK no, that would require a big ugly blacklist and manpower to
> maintain it. Is there a bug filed on the failure to suspend correctly?

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=690648
The issue with my laptop is that it appears to suspend properly, but
the screen will not power back on when trying to resume. Everything
else seems to work OK (had headphones plugged in, and banshee resumed
the track it had been playing when it suspended). I filed it under
pm-utils because I was testing it out around the time of the test day,
but didn't have time to run a full test suite. Is there a better
component for it? Hibernation is a whole other kettle of fish, and I
have not had time to do a bug report on it yet.

>
>> And/or is there a way (through gsettings I
>> guess it would be?) for users to change this so we don't have to press
>> Alt every time?
>
> Not sure about this...
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