powersave-ACPI problem on LAC laptop
I have a hang during boot which might be a powersave daemon problem, and which I may have bypassed by re-installing Suse on my Los Alamos Computers (LAC) laptop. I am now looking for a permanent fix. It was suggested that I contact my hardware vendor for a possible hardware or BIOS upgrade, so I sent an email to LAC. I have not yet received a reply. While checking this out, I noticed that LAC advertises: -------------------------------------------------------------- Automated System Restore for all Computers (5 Jun 2004) LAC GNU/Linux computers now ship with an automated system restore procedure that restores your system to its original state, leaving non- OS data intact. Our system restore procedure is distribution-independent and applies to every LAC Linux Laptop, Workstation, Portable, and Server. LAC Linux Laptops Support ACPI S4 Sleep (6 May 2004) LAC Linux Laptops now support ACPI S4 sleep (suspend to disk) when running the preinstalled 2.4 or 2.6 kernel -- every laptop, any GNU/Linux distribution (LAC offers Debian, Red Hat/Fedora, SuSE, Mandrake, and Slackware). -------------------------------------------------------------- I downloaded related files from LAC's support page, and found that the ACPI support requires an swsusp-enabled kernel. Is the 2.6.8-24 kernel shipped with Suse 9.2 swsusp-enabled? Can I download an swsusp-enabled kernel via Yast?
On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 08:48:09PM -0800, Thomas Frayne wrote:
I downloaded related files from LAC's support page, and found that the ACPI support requires an swsusp-enabled kernel. Is the 2.6.8-24 kernel shipped with Suse 9.2 swsusp-enabled? Can I download an swsusp-enabled
Yes
kernel via Yast?
Yes. Just click on the kpowersave icon in the system tray (it looks like a battery or a power plug) and select "suspend to disk". It should work. If it doesn't (and it is enabled in the YaST powermanagement module), come back and ask for help :-) And it needs neither ACPI nor APM, it works independent of that stuff. Cool, eh? There is documentation and READMEs in /usr/share/doc/packages/powersave -- Stefan Seyfried
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