[LUAU] Re: Laptop Install

[Jim Thompson]

On Jul 6, 2005, at 6:21 PM, Hawaii Linux Institute wrote:


> Jim Thompson wrote:
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>> Heck, I've had both of those working on an IBM X21 and an ancient   
>> Dell Lattitude.
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>> The big clue is to run a 2.6 kernel.
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> IBM has a special kernel patch to allow STR (sleep mode = 3) to  
> work.  I understand that this patch might have been incorporated  
> into the 2.6.11 kernel.  I don't know about Dell.  But generally,  
> even with the 2.6.11 kernel, STR does not work on most machines,  
> desktops or notebooks.  Warren had a little discussion on STR re  
> IBM T41:
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> http://www.livejournal.com/users/wtogami/7106.html
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> But it still appears to drain quite a bit of juice during suspend.
>
> On most machines (e.g., my HP/Compaq), putting them to sleep is not  
> the problem, waking them up is.  SuSE Pro 9.3 specifically  
> advertised that it includes the STR feature, while most Fedora  
> users seem to have given up.
>

I hardly deal with anything but gentoo


> Saturday is always a bad day for me.  I was wondering whether you  
> have done anything to the xorg.conf file?  How about the Wi-Fi?  Wayne
>

I'm currently 3k miles away, so Sat is really hard for me.

Wi-Fi:   I've only run hostap and madwifi, and both of those work  
fine for suspend/resume.