Suggestions on notebook

[jbk]

Ed Hill wrote:

>    + they work nicely with ACPI S3 (suspend-to-RAM) sleep 
>         which I use 2-3+ times per day (and I routinely 
>         have 30+ day uptimes)
> 
> so while I'm a lot less than thrilled about the binary-only nature of
> the modules I can say that they work quite nicely for all my needs.
> 
> And, AFAICT, everything else about this laptop works nicely with Linux.
> 
> Ed
> 
Have you tried swsusp2 for hibernation. I have been useing 
Mathias Henslers kernel binaries with swsusp2 compiled in. 
It takes some minimal initial configuration that he provides 
good documentation for. A restart to where you were takes 
less than 30 seconds, maybe faster. I haven't attempted to 
set it for lid close yet, but with an old battery I would 
prefer hibernate to suspend to ram.

Jim