swsusp and FC4?

Dave Jones davej at redhat.com
Wed Apr 20 16:23:11 UTC 2005


On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 11:10:10AM +0200, Paul Tavernier wrote:
 > Dave Jones wrote:
 > 
 > >On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 10:53:05AM +0200, Paul Tavernier wrote:
 > >>    Will this precious package be included in FC4? It's such a nice 
 > >> project for all the mobile users....I'm fed up with shutting down my 
 > >> computer, and restarting up constantly...
 > >
 > >Magic 8-ball says... "unlikely".
 > >
 > >There's no way I'd trust it on any box containing data I cared about
 > >having read the code.
 > >
 > Explicit answer, thanks, Dave,
 > ...So is there any reliable other project to make our laptops hibernating?

suspend-to-ram with ACPI is the best we have to offer right now
(and yes, I know how broken it is on a lot of setups).
There are folks at Red Hat looking into trying to make this more usable
to more people.  Dunno if it'll make FC4 though, it's an ongoing thing.

		Dave





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