Re: Suspend/hibernation/sleep of laptop on FC4?

[William Murray]

>  
>  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:
>  
>  1) what is supported by the latest FC4 update kernel (2.6.13-1526)?
>  2) how can I make the parts that are supported (and safe) work on FC4?
>  3) 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_...
>  
>  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

Suspend/hibernation/sleep of laptop on FC4?

[Patrick]

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