Re: F15 -> F16, sleep keys don't work

2011-11-16 Thread Hannes Frederic Sowa
Hi! On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 5:40 PM, Digimer wrote: >  I upgraded from F15 to F16 (x86_64 on a Thinkpad T400s) and the + > key combo no longer puts my laptop to sleep. When I tried 'acpitool > -s', it fails to sleep the computer are returns; This is tracked here:

Re: Is swap really needed when RAM's aplenty

2010-08-18 Thread Hannes Frederic Sowa
On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 1:00 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > I'll probably have a new server with 16 gigs of RAM on the way, soon. > > With this amount of RAM being sufficient, do I really need a swap partition > set up? I do understand that a swap partition is needed for hibernation, but > this serv

Re: hdparm (was: understanding smart logs)

2010-08-16 Thread Hannes Frederic Sowa
On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 6:49 PM, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote: > Does the hdparm secure erase work on most motherboards?  It seems that > most of newer boards have a bios that disables the secure erase at bios > boot time.  Only my oldest mobo allows me to use the security erase.  I > find that I h