Re: ACPI and suspend
Joris@lists.debian-laptop@Sat, 30 Mar 2002 08:45:06 +0100:
> Are there any reasons to prefer software suspend to disk above
> bios-controlled, or backwards?
>
The advantage of using bios-suspend is that it usually works.. The
advantage of using software-suspend is that it only saves to disk what's
necessary, so it can be faster. Unfortunately the Linux swsusp patch is
not quite (not at all for most people) reliable.. :-(
It still has problems with:
- Running X (especially with the nvidia (non-free) drivers)
- Having a journaling filesystem (it corrupted ext3 more than once,
AFAIK it has less problems with ext2)
- Having NFS-mounted drives
Also, it doesn't restore some devices correctly, like NICs, sound cards
and mouses. And possibly more problems.. :-(
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