ACPI support in Hoary

[thully at umich.edu]

In my experience, Hibernate may show up on the menu by default, but resume=<swap
partition> doesn't.  Has this changed recently?
Quoting Niran Babalola <iamniran at gmail.com>:

> > I am aware that ACPI support has been enabled in Hoary for some time now -
> > hibernate and suspend can be invoked using the keyboard, and for the most
> part
> > needed tasks before/after suspend are being scripted.
> >
> > However, currently, there is no GUI to configure this.  Additionally,
> enabling
> > suspend/hibernate currently requires editing configuration files.
>
> For configuration of what occurs when various ACPI events are
> generated, I agree that a GUI would be nice. If you're talking about a
> GUI for initiating suspend and hibernate, if you're completely
> updated, there should be an option for at least hibernating in the Log
> Out dialog. Hibernate was enabled for me by default, and enabling
> suspend in the scripts added it to the Log Out dialog as well.
>
> > Also on the topic of ACPI, currently by default no modules except for a few
> are
> > unloaded/reloaded on suspend/resume.  However, there are several that need
> > this, including my own ipw2200 wireless card (however, a new version of the
> > driver may fix this).  Could we add devices such as these that are known to
> > have problems w/suspend to the "unload on suspend" list?
>
> >From messing with the suspend scripts earlier today, I noticed that it
> unloads and reloads all network and usb drivers, so it should be
> removing your wireless card. The problem I ran into is that the
> 8139too driver breaks on reload, which, from what I've gathered from a
> Google search, is fixed in later kernel versions.
>
> - Niran
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