Linux on a laptop ... step 2?

[Derek Atkins]

Ed Hill <ed at eh3.com> writes:

> Hi Derek,
>
> It brings my video driver back to life after an S3 sleep so that I don't
> have a black screen that won't wake up.  I needed it for circa-2.6.9
> kernels but perhaps newer ones don't need it.

Hmm, I've certainly never needed it to come back from sleep...

> Speaking of sleep/hibernate, have you tried the FC3-compatible swsusp2-
> patched kernels from M. Hensler:
>
>   http://mhensler.de/swsusp/
>
> Some of the recent ones (2.6.10-1.770_FC3 and 2.6.11-1.20_FC3) have
> worked very nicely on my laptop.

No, I haven't tried swsusp yet.  I've been fairly happy so-far with
just using suspend-to-ram.  The machine seems to lock up hard about
once a week anyways (I haven't figured out what causes that).

-derek
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