Out of the box laptop suspend to RAM support

Jim Richardson warlock at eskimo.com
Sun Oct 2 06:30:38 UTC 2005


On Fri, 2005-09-30 at 17:28 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> In Hoary (and in Breezy so far), in order to suspend to RAM it's 
> necessary to edit /etc/default/acpi-support, uncomment the second line, 
> reboot and then see if it works. This is less than ideal. For Breezy, 
> we'd like to support as many machines as possible. So if you have 
> working ACPI suspend to RAM, please send me (and not the mailing 
> list) the output of 
> 
> sudo dmidecode
> 
> and we'll enable it by default for Breezy.
> 
> Thanks,
> -- 
> Matthew Garrett | mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org
> 

attached is the result of sudo dmidecode, I have a Dell Inspiron 8100,
and suspend seems to be working fine, although I haven't tried it much,
nor have I pushed the envelope by unplugging things like USB mice yet.
Any idea how long a laptop will stay suspended before a good condition
battery gives out?  


-- 
Jim Richardson http://www.eskimo.com/~warlock
Reality continues to ruin my life. -- Calvin
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