Hi all,
The last item to tackle on my new laptop is to figure out how to get it to go into some sort of standby mode when I either close the lid, briefly press the power button or right click on the battery icon and select suspend. I have googled around but haven't really found the one stop shop how to do it. I've read that "suspend to disk" is only supported with the patches from http://swsusp2.net/ but Dave Jones' stance ("My comments on swsusp are largely unprintable" don't really inspire confidence. See https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2004-October/msg01375.html)
So I have a few questions:
- what is supported by the latest FC4 update kernel (2.6.13-1526)?
- how can I make the parts that are supported (and safe) work on FC4?
- according to one report the kernel parameter "acpi_sleep=s3_bios" can
result in filesystem corruption on 2.6.12. Does that apply to the FC4 kernels too? See: http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Installing_Fedora_Core_4_on_a_ThinkPad_X41_Tab...
If possible I would like the power button to act as follows:
- press it briefly and go into some sort of standby
- press it longer and shut down the laptop
On the laptop I also have a key combination (Fn-F4) that supposedly generates an ACPI sleep message. Would be nice if I could use that one too.
Many thanks for any pointers.
Regards, Patrick
Hi Patrick, I am very happy with the kernels from Matthias Hensler: http://mhensler.de/swsusp/ But you do have to install them one by one. Works for me. Bill
On Sat, 2005-10-01 at 17:24 +0100, William John Murray wrote: [snip]
Hi Patrick, I am very happy with the kernels from Matthias Hensler: http://mhensler.de/swsusp/ But you do have to install them one by one. Works for me. Bill
Hi Bill,
Thanks for the feedback. I'll throw one of these kernels together and try it out. Funny timing, www.swsusp2.net seems to have disappeared.
Regards, Patrick
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