> > 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_Tablet#Suspend > > 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
