Shall we hide the GUI for Hibernate in Natty?

[Mackenzie Morgan]

On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 4:34 PM, Kees Cook <kees at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 04:24:11PM -0500, Mackenzie Morgan wrote:
>> On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 3:00 PM, Marc Deslauriers
>> <marc.deslauriers at canonical.com> wrote:
>> > I haven't actually tried this in a long time, but what happens with
>> > current Ubuntu when the battery drains out while suspended?
>>
>> It turns off.
>>
>> > Does the
>> > laptop wake up and enter hibernation to prevent data loss?
>>
>> No, but the disk does sync before suspend, so corruption isn't a
>> worry, just... "oops I didn't save before suspending."
>
> My newer laptop supports "hybrid" mode, and it will come out of suspend and
> then hibernate when the battery is critically low after being suspended for
> a long time. Extremely handy.

I know some hardware has BIOS support for that, but I thought the OS
needed to understand it too and that Ubuntu was in "not yet" state on
that.  Is this new?

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Mackenzie Morgan
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