Matt Price wrote: > I'm wondering what my best options are for getting my desktop to enter a > suspend state.
The suspend2 kernel patches. > Also I'd ideally like to have it wake up by itself in the middle of the > night, do a bunch of chores (preferably including foldingm y laundry) > and then go back to sleep. Don't think swsusp2 will do that. But your BIOS might. If you have wake-on-lan and a way to trigger it then that would work. > The motherboard supports ACPI and there is a BIOS option that seems to > switch something between S1 and S3, but I don't really know what that is. The S1 through S4 are different power down states. > I have been looking into the suspend kernel module and the suspend2 > kenrel patch but so far haven't had a lot of luck getting my patched > kernels to boot (instead they panic very early). I will keep trying > with that but I'm wondering what solutions other folks have come up with > on the desktop power-management front. I use swsusp2 on my laptop. It works pretty well. In experimental martin f. krafft is maintaining a set of kernel patches. http://packages.debian.org/experimental/devel/kernel-patch-suspend2 Bob
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