On Thu, 16 Sep 2004 12:42:17 +0800, Ow Mun Heng <ow.mun.heng@xxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, 2004-09-16 at 11:29, Satish Balay wrote: > > On Thu, 16 Sep 2004, John Francis wrote: > > > > > You're right Ow, but it is a bit of a hassle to do this. Especially > > > because I like to keep my kernel up to date which would mean > > > recompiling every time Fedora release an updated kernel. > Well, if you're like me, I prefer to compile my own kernel. I leave out > all the modules I don't use and keep my kernel small. > I don't have the time or patience to do this. Also, I have a large HDD and plenty of RAM so I don't much care for keeping my kernel small. > > > > > > I am just curious as to why this feature has been left out, I would > > > have thought it to be a heavily used feature. > Not all laptops support Suspend to Disk. Esp the newer ones with ACPI. > As far as I know, SW Suspend to Disk does not rely on any support from the laptop or from the laptops ACPI interface. In fact it should even work on a PC. It is analogous to the Windows Hibernate feature. That is the whole point. Rather than worrying about this or that laptop being supported I can just use a universal, non-laptop dependent way of suspending. > > Well suspend-to ram works pretty well here (with APM) - so I never had > > a need to suspend-to disk. Esp with ACPI not working so well.. (things > > are still changing there) > Yes they are. > Unfortunately, it appears that the stock FC2 kernels do not have APM support compiled in. > > > > Satish > > -- > Ow Mun Heng > Fedora GNU/Linux Core 2 on D600 1.4Ghz CPU kernel > 2.6.7-2.jul1-interactive > Neuromancer 11:40:39 up 1 day, 2:24, 7 users, load average: 0.31, 0.75, > 0.66 > > > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list >
