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Re: Suspend2-patch vs Debian Sarge (official) kernel 2.6.8-16sarge1



On Mon, 27 Feb 2006 14:20:21 +0100
luca ferraro <l.ferraro@caspur.it> wrote:

> Rob,
> 
> I was not looking for an alternative way to do suspend 

I always thought ACPI suspend was more native than suspend2.

>(I already knew 
> ACPI suspend feature), but I am interest in suspend2 (which has a lot of 
> great features ACPI don't have). More, suspend2 is a debian package 
> which should work with the Debian system - but actually it is not.
> 
> My intent was to understand why this package is in a non working state 
> for debian stable kernel, and how to get it work.
> 

More power to you, have fun :)

BTW, as I understand it, ACPI is maturing, but functionality issues may differ by laptop brand.

> 
> If you are interest I report some features of suspend2 (from 
> http://www.suspend2.net/features)
> 
> Software Suspend's features include:
> 
>      * Image compression (LZF - very fast and highly recommended)
>      * Full asynchronous I/O and readahead for synchronous I/O for 
> maximum throughput
>      * Support for any number of swap partitions and/or files.
>      * The ability to cancel a suspend cycle (during suspending) by 
> pressing escape
>      * The ability to specify a maximum image size.
>      * Support for saving a full image of your memory, resulting in a 
> fast, responsive system after resuming
>      * Support for plugins: data transformers (compression, encryption) 
> and new storage backends (NFS support is planned).
>      * Nice user interface (Bootsplash compatible).
>      * Support for Highmem (up to 4GB), SMP and preemptive kernels.
>      * The ability to build Software Suspend 2 as modules, allowing it 
> to be called from an initrd.
>      * Speed and reliability - Software Suspend has been extensively 
> tested in a variety of configurations over many months. It is not 
> guaranteed to be perfect, but bugs found will be hunted and fixed quickly.
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Regards,

Rob de Graaf



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