On Mon, 2007-01-29 at 17:04 -0700, clemens@xxxxxxx wrote: > I have read the cautions in SWSUSP and SUSPEND2, and wonder if > anyone is actually using either of these on a Laptop? > > There seem to be so many caveats, > (a) stop devices before suspending, unload drivers > (b) USB wont be there when you come back > (c) and on and on. I don't. When I do - either the laptop won't wake up again (bad) or it will come back and I have to ctrl-alt-F7 to get back to the gui - and any USB devices have to be unplugged/replugged. I don't find it very useful. What also is annoying - I'm suppose to be able to hot swap stuff in my expansion bay (Thinkpad T20) - by unmounting it if it is a volume, and then (as root) eject > /proc/acpi/ibm/bay first. However, if I do so - I get a stream of IDE errors on the screen, and I need to reboot. So I basically have to power off to switch devices in the bay (not a big issue - I very very very rarely need to do so - in fact, most of the time, I just have the travel bezel in the bay and no devices, let alone wanting to swap). If there is a laptop maker truly dedicated to Linux - such that they hire kernel programmers to make sure thinks *just work* as well as they do in Windows - they just might get my business. But they would also have to make a 3 button mousepad like IBM does :p
