pm-utils 1.3.0-rc1 available to testing
Victor Lowther
victor.lowther at gmail.com
Mon Dec 7 08:09:24 PST 2009
On Dec 7, 2009, at 10:00 AM, Frederic Crozat <fcrozat at mandriva.com>
wrote:
> Le 06/12/2009 05:24, Victor Lowther a écrit :
>> PM-utils 1.3.0-rc1 is not available for testing. Notable changes
>> from
>> the pm-utils 1.2 series:
>>
>> * We now have a suspend-hybrid method that does not rely on
>> tuxonice or
>> userspace suspend/resume. It initially suspends the box, and sets an
>> alarm to wake up in 15 minutes. If the system is not resumed
>> before the
>> alarm goes off, it will wake up and hibernate. You should be sure
>> hibernate works before using this mode -- if the system fails to
>> hibernate, it will not go back to sleep on its own (working around
>> this
>> involves better reporting from the kernel about the last sleep
>> state --
>> I have a patch forthcoming for that), and if you cannot resume from
>> hibernate you may as well have not even tried to hibernate in the
>> first
>> place.
>
> One thing to keep in mind (it might be more needed for g-p-m and KDE
> equivalent) : users might think they laptop are really
> "off" (harddisk not running) and moving it in a backpack or whatever
> and the "hibernate part" could be started while laptop is not a
> "physicaly" stable position. Maybe g-p-m / kpowersave should warn
> users the first time they enable "hybrid" suspend (with explanation
> on the timeout)..
It is not an issue for g-p-m right now because it does not expose
hybrid suspend at all. I do not know if kpowersave does - I have not
used kde since the mid 1990's.
>
> --
> Frederic Crozat
> Mandriva
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