OK, as I'd posted a while back, the hinge on my well-traveled Vaio
finally gave up and I was in the market for a new laptop, which I was
going to load anew with a current distro. I finally settled on Ubuntu
8.04 ("Hardy") 64-bit, and I figured out which options I'd needed for
a vanilla kernel to work on it that didn't lose me any of the newfangled
GUI functionality (well, to me, anyway- as a developer at the X
Consortium a looong time ago, I was stuck on the Motif Window Manager,
but am liking the Gnome desktop quite a bit now).
Anyway, here's the thing- there's an option for sleep/hibernate (ACPI
s2ram and s2disk) that comes "out-of-the box" with this distro via the
vanilla kernel's suspend, and much to my surprise, it *works*, every
time (I haven't had a single suspend nor resume failure, and this laptop
(HP dv9843cl) has an NVidia chip in it).
Now, here's where the heresy comes in (esp. since I was a paying
contributor to the ToI effort last year) - what do I gain out of using
ToI?
It's a mostly-serious question (I've gone and installed ToI on this box
again just today 'cause with 4GB of ram, and no compressor nor cache-
only option it takes next to forever to suspend and resume), but what
do I gain?
For those who are using it on a newish Ubuntu/Debian distro (and I'll
most likely keep using it, esp as I'm sure in the 2.5mos I've been
"away" Nigel has improved ToI's reliability), is anything required other
than installing the hibernate-scripts, building the userspace-interface
stuff and replacing "pm-hibernate" in /etc/gdm/gdm.conf with "hibernate"?
Thanks,
-Kenny
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Kenneth R. Crudup Sr. SW Engineer, Scott County Consulting, Los Angeles
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