Re: Linux laptop Suspend / Hibernation development
On Fri, 18 Sep 2009 01:27:15 +0000, T o n g wrote:
> Thanks Stefan for your reply.
>
> To answer my own question, here is what I discovered about suspend /
> hibernation evolvement in Linux laptop world.
>
> - the traditional tools are uswsusp + hibernate (s2ram/s2disk &
hibernate-ram/hibernate-disk)
s2ram was removed from Ubuntu as early as Ubuntu 710. [4]
> - pm-utils is the new suspend and powerstate setting framework. It is
> designed to replace such scripts as those provided by the powersave
> package. [1]
Ubuntu uses pm-utils as the standard suspend/resume framework as early as
Ubuntu 810. [4]
> - The latest development is, however, DeviceKit. Both Ubuntu & Fedora
are
> moving towards DeviceKit. [2], [3]
>
> 1. http://www.archlinux.it/wiki/index.php?title=Pm-utils
> 2. http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/karmic/alpha6
> 3. http://ostatic.com/blog/a-peek-at-devicekit-in-fedora-11-and-beyond
4. http://wiki.linuxmce.org/index.php/Suspend
> So far, Debian seems to be lagging behind such evolvement -- I don't
see
> devicekit in Debian repo yet.
>
> cheers
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