Jaunty: Where is the suspend option?

[Derek Broughton]

Myriam Schweingruber wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 15:35, Derek Broughton <derek at pointerstop.ca>
> wrote:
>>
>> I hear you, and I know it can be tough.  Having been unable to install
>> 8.10 immediately when I had to buy a new machine, I don't have KDE4 at
>> all right now, so can't really help.
> 
> Folks, there *is* suspend to RAM in the "leave" menu in Jaunty, it's
> just called "Sleep" and not "Suspend".
> This is logical, as there are two different suspend modes: suspend to
> RAM and suspend to disk.
> 

I hesitate to respond to anything you write, as you seem to have the power
to arbitrarily ban threads on this list, however...

"Suspend to RAM" is not, and never has been, the same as "Sleep"

Sleep is ACPI state S1.
Suspend is ACPI state S3.
Hibernate is ACPI state S4.

For the life of me, I can't remember what S2 was supposed to be, but iirc
not many, if any, computers implement it.

S1 is a low-power state where disks are spun down and network interfaces
suspended, but the system is still essentially on.
S3 is a state where everything that can be is turned off, and the cpu is
halted, only memory is still powered.
S4 is similar to S3 but memory is backed to disk and _everything_ powered
down.

So no, it's _not_ logical for "Suspend" to be called "Sleep", and if your
system only shows sleep and hibernate it either means: there's a bug or
your system _doesn't_ support S3 (not uncommon).
-- 
derek