On Tue, 2023-12-19 at 14:26 -0500, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > Don't suspend. I find it is hit or miss whether things work correctly > with ACPI Sleep States (S0 - S5). In particular, S3 and above.
I got the impression that only laptops seem to have reasonably well working suspend, and suspect that little effort is put into designing and testing desktops to suspend well. That may have improved with increasing demands for so-called green technology. But, in the past suspending was dire. And I don't recall people really wanting to suspend desktops. Certainly the windows fraternity was forever rebooting, and used to the idea that lots of things just don't work. Certain suspend modes require a suitable power supply, too. They don't switch off fully, some power circuits are required to stay up, and supply sufficient current to the motherboard. It also requires all the hardware to support suspending, some will not wake up, or wake up in a scrambled mode requiring some kind of software reset to be done. And the drivers have to support it too, especially if the hardware requires resetting during wake. Hibernating, or suspend to disk, was usually reliable. It was basically a RAM dump to disk, then completely switch off. The only tricky bit was waking up had to read the resume information rather than just cold boot. It often had to be manually configured where to read that from. Though, having said all that, did the computer suspend and resume properly in the past? -- NB: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the list. The following system info data is generated fresh for each post: uname -rsvp Linux 6.2.15-100.fc36.x86_64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Thu May 11 16:51:53 UTC 2023 x86_64 -- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
