[CS-FSLUG] Linux Laptop Support

[David McGlone]

On Mon January 2 2006 9:25 am, Brian Derr wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-01-02 at 01:12 -0600, Nathan T. wrote:

I'm glad this was brought up.  On my SuSE 10 box the sleep and hibernation and 
start screen saver works just fine Only when Kpowersave is not running. But 
when Kpowersave is running nothing works like is should.

Also when I use either sleep or hibernation, for some reason I lose connection 
to my network and have to  reboot to be able to access my network again, but 
when I use the screen saver instead of hibernate everything works out ok. I 
think there might be a bug in kpowersave, but then again it may be that my 
settings in yast and kpowersave are conflicting with each other.

> > It's a Toshiba Satellite M40X-RH4.
> >
> > The problem I've had were with the touchpad, the atheros wireless
> > card, and getting a decent distribution with a working sleep and
> > hibernate function.
>
> Let's not get the role of the distribution and the kernel confused.  The
> kernel is what provides sleep and hibernate functionality and it is
> still quite young.
>
> For fun you could download the latest kernel (development, even?) and
> enable the sleep/hibernate functions and give it a try.  I would image
> most linux distros will have a much older kernel than the latest and
> greatest.
>
> Brian
>
>
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