[LUAU] Re: Laptop Install
Jim Thompson
jim at netgate.com
Wed Jul 6 18:45:51 PDT 2005
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.
>>
>> 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:
>
> http://www.livejournal.com/users/wtogami/7106.html
>
> 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.
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