Suspend2 isn't invasive.

[Matt Price]

On Tue, 2006-19-12 at 13:41 -0500, Philippe Clérié wrote:
> Nigel Cunningham wrote:
> 
> > 
> > I can never understand why people keep saying hibernation is mostly a
> > laptop thing. It's just as useful for desktops; I guess it's just a
> > mindset thing.
> > 
> 
> I agree! It would be particularly useful where street power is a once in
> while thing. I'm on batteries most of the time and I can assure you that
> conserving power on a desktop _is_ high priority. Which is why my desktop
> is off whenever it's not in use. Reliable hibernation would be welcome.
> 

so, I was able to build suspend2 kernels using nigel's
ubuntu-2.6-suspend2 git tree (currently offline till git.kernel.org is
less overloaded.  If linux-restricted-modules were available somewwhere
for svn (or whatever) access, then I suppose I could also try to build
l-r-m packages (this could happen after xmas I guess).  

I've also posted some modifications to initramfs-tools which would
enable suspend2 support in the initrd
(https://bugs.launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/initramfs-tools/+bug/75616).  And I think Bernard has some suggestions for acpi-support (hard for me to generate them as I don't have diffs btwn his packages and the current acpi-support versions).  My idea isthat it could be made as easy as possible for those of us who still seem to require suspend2 to use it.  
matt


> Regards
> Philippe
> 
> 
> 
-- 
Matt Price
History Dept
University of Toronto
matt.price at utoronto.ca
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