Hi, Rade Trimceski writes:

Can anyone tell me if Suse 9.1 will be capable of using ACPI to send a laptop into sleep states, for example hybernate? Has anyone tried this and how well does it work?

I'll do my best, but others may have to help. SuSE uses something called powersave - based on a daemon that runs and responds to various ACPI events, including throttling, temp. control, etc. as well as the commands for standby (save to RAM) and suspend (hibernate or save to disk). The actions executed are determined and implemented by a sophisticated configuration file (which you can extend or modify). Suspend or (hibernation) appears to work well on many laptops (including my X31 Thinkpad) and standby works less successfully. On my laptop, for example, the backlight does not shut off on standby and there is sometimes a video RAM problem when it's reactivated. Hibernation works fine. There is, of course, always the possibility of switching back to APM (which for standby worked perfectly on my machine). This, too, is supported by the same powersave system. It appears to me that the powersave configuration is new and will be further refined, but so much apparently depends on the implementation of ACPI in the BIOS. (Anyone please correct if I have misstated something or left something out.) -K -- "I've had nothing yet," Alice replied in an offended tone, "so I can't take more." "You mean you can't take less," said the Hatter: "it's very easy to take more than nothing."