On Fri, 29 Mar 2002, Alan Shutko wrote: > Derek Broughton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Almost. Level 1 is easy and fully supported. If you're running the >> latest ACPI patches with swsusp you can do suspend-to-disk, but over >> on ACPI-devel they're still arguing about how much of the swsusp >> stuff to incorporate. > > Cool! Is that in the version in the 2.4 kernels, or only in 2.5?
There have been patches around for a while. Despite having a laptop that does not feature suspend-to-disk at all, I have not used them. There are semi-regular reports of yet-another disk corrupting bug in the swsusp patches... The mailing list is probably a good place to visit, at least before committing. Links from: <http://falcon.sch.bme.hu/~seasons/linux/swsusp.html> > (I have to try 2.5 anyway to see if the latest works with my > laptop... apparently 2.4.18 doesn't. Strange, I thought it used to on > older ones....) Watch out for recent releases. Everything from 2.5.1 to 2.5.5-pre* corrupted data on-disk for me. 2.5.6 is stable, without extremes of load[1], running IDE disks in DMA mode. PIO mode disk devices are still broken, in data-corrupting ways, apparently, in that revision. I have not tried anything newer because they have vastly /more/ dramatic changes to the IDE driver in them. So... do take a backup before you go playing with the 2.5 series. :) Daniel Footnotes: [1] Which are rumored, but not provably, to trigger corruption. -- The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible, and achieve it, generation after generation. -- Pearl S. Buck -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
