[CS-FSLUG] Putting computer in Standby in Linux

Jukka Y mail at ylonen.info
Thu Oct 21 15:42:17 CDT 2004


On Thursday 21 October 2004 22:57, Fred Miller wrote:
> On Wednesday October 20 2004 11:49 pm, Brian Derr wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 18, 2004 at 07:38:16PM -0600, N. Thompson wrote:
> > > I'm wondering how I might get a standby option in Linux for when I want
> > > to keep the computer ready for when I need to use it but also nice and
> > > quiet for when I'm trying to sleep at night. Does anyone have any
> > > helpful advice as to where I could find support for this in Mandrake
> > > 10.0 and how to use it?
> >
> > If you can find such a thing I'd like to hear about it.  I haven't heard
> > of a suspend mode for linux and don't think there will be.  (Unless you
> > write the code to put it there! ;-)  At any rate, in linux your choices
> > are on or off.
>
> There are some new utils IN SUSE Pro. 9.2 that will ship the 1st of Nov.
> Check http://www.suse.com to see what's all there. I do know of one utility
> that will suspend a hard drive.
>
> Fred

I checked from xconfig and it seems like there is already a support for 
software-suspend in Suse 9.1 (kernel 2.6.5), but it may require a kernel 
re-compilation. Here is a screenshot:

http://www.ylonen.info/software-suspend.png



Blessings,
Jukka




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