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Linux still has lots of problems with suspend/hibernate/resume on laptops (Oneiric broke hiberanate on my laptop for example), so booting is still kind of impor
by acabal 14y ago
Linux still has lots of problems with suspend/hibernate/resume on laptops (Oneiric broke hiberanate on my laptop for example), so booting is still kind of important for that reason.
Resume from hibernate is another area where I'd like to see improvements. I hibernate instead of suspend because I never know if I'll make it back to an outlet in time.
- javert 14y agoSounds like a problem with Ubuntu, really, not Linux.
- ebiester 14y agoIt's more of a problem with hardware more interested in coding to "works on Windows" than "complies with spec." And honestly, Startup is as fast as resume these days - the problem is applications that don't remember last known state and window managers that won't remember the rest. Why don't we fix that instead rather than chasing down all the suspend bugs?
- mbq 14y agoRestoring app last state? Like terminal emulator recreating tmux session wrapping screen session with package manager working under sudo? SSH unHUP-ing processes on remote machine? Python VM resuming all scripts in a precise place and state they were stopped? The problem is that there is no such thing as isolated "application" on Linux or any other real OS.
- jmah 14y agoRestoring is hard. Let's go shopping!
- javert 14y agoSuspend-to-RAM, as opposed to suspend-to-disk, is way faster than booting. Why chase down suspend bugs? because they are bugs. I'm with you on fixing window managers, generally speaking.
- emmelaich 14y agoI've never had it work reliably with Fedora. Reliable sleep is about the only reason I use Windows now.
- javert 14y agoI definitely could be wrong in my conjecture. I've used sleep reliably under Arch Linux in the past. (Not using it now because my laptop doesn't work anymore without being plugged in.)
- andrewflnr 14y agoOn the same hardware that Ubuntu (and friends) didn't work on? I've been having problems with resuming, and wondered if going to Arch would help, but couldn't think of a real reason why it would.
- LeafStorm 14y agoNewer drivers, for one. Also, it's a lot easier to mess with Arch's internals than Ubuntu's.
- djeikyb 14y agoIt's not a fair test; haven't tried a recent Ubuntu, but: suspend to ram and suspend to disk were broken on Ubuntu 10.04 and 10.10 with my Eeepc 900. Arch + TuxOnIce has worked great for suspend to disk for about a year now.
- rplnt 14y agoI've had some problems with Intel graphics on my DELL in Fedora 14. Sometimes video, sometimes full screen flash, and sometimes sleep caused it to crash. On my older IBM with ATI, everything worked just fine. Anyway, in Fedora 16 the graphics and sleep works just fine for me.
- kleiba 14y agoNote that Ubuntu disables hibernate by default in the current release 12.04 ("Precise Pangolin"). https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PrecisePangolin/ReleaseNotes/UbuntuDesktop#PrecisePangolin.2BAC8-ReleaseNotes.2BAC8-CommonInfrastructure.Common_Infrastructure https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PrecisePangolin/ReleaseNotes/UbuntuD...
- acabal 14y agoWell suspend/hibernate/resume are kernel functions so it is a Linux problem.
- javert 14y agoI'm aware that they're kernel functions, but it's not necessarily that simple.