Hoary - enabling hibernate mode

[russell cook]

Oh well,  I'll await the final release (or not Array CD) and do a
complete install on this machine. I've checked the acpi-support file on
both PCs and they're identical.

 
On Sun, 2005-03-06 at 22:58 +1300, Bill Christiansen wrote:

> On Sun, 2005-03-06 at 19:56 +1100, russell cook wrote:
> > Thanks Matt, I already have this installed, although I did a reinstall
> > for good measure. 
> > 
> > I now have a suspend the computer option but not a hibernate on the
> > logoff menu.
> That sounds a bit like my laptop, I retrospectively put ubuntu-desktop
> back on and it gave me a suspend option on the logoff menu but not
> hibernate and selecting suspend from the menu doesn't actually do
> anything but both suspend and hibernate work when I run the commands
> manually. I'm actually loving suspend and using it most of the time for
> a few weeks now. It means this old P2 laptop is up and running in about
> 10 seconds as opposed to 2 and a half minutes for a full boot :)
> 
> Like Russell my other PC that was installed from a Hoary array instead
> of upgrading does have both suspend & hibernate in the log off menu
> although from memory I had to edit the acpi-support file to enable
> hibernate and then restart Gnome for the option to appear.
> > 
> > On Sat, 2005-03-05 at 14:31 -0800, Matt Zimmerman wrote: 
> > > On Sun, Mar 06, 2005 at 07:17:24AM +1100, russell cook wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Array 6 looks great, lots of small improvements that seem to add to
> > > > compatibility, speed and stability. Well done team. I've tried it on my
> > > > Dad's machine (live CD at this stage) and it detects his DWL-G520
> > > > wireless card ok. This is a great improvement on earlier versions.
> > > > 
> > > > I did a clean install on my AMD Duron900,  and now have a hibernate
> > > > option in the logout screen - nice!
> > > > 
> > > > On my AMD Athlon 64 I did a synaptic smart upgrade and don't have this
> > > > option. This would be cool as the Athlon 64 is my main desktop, so a
> > > > hibernate option would be great.
> > > > 
> > > > Does anyone know how to enable this?
> > > 
> > > Install the "ubuntu-desktop" package.
> > > 
> > > -- 
> > >  - mdz
> 

Kind Regards Russell
www.windsorcycles.com.au
Linux user #369094


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