Subject: Re: laptop suspend with ACPI? Any equivalent to zzz?
To: Alicia da Conceicao <alicia@engine.ca>
From: Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 01/27/2004 23:54:15
Alicia da Conceicao <alicia@engine.ca> writes:
> Lennart Augustsson <lennart@augustsson.net> writes:
>>>>No, using ACPI you can't suspend. :(
>>>>Making it happen is a lot of work, since with ACPI the OS has to
>>>>do most of the work (unlike APM where BIOS does most).
>
> perry@piermont.com <Perry E.Metzger> writes:
>>> It isn't actually that bad. There are various different levels of ACPI
>>> suspend, and the lightest sleeps are very much like APM sleeps -- we
>>> could implement it very trivially, or, even better, we could just take
>>> the code from FreeBSD that handles all this.
>
> Lennart Augustsson <lennart@augustsson.net> writes:
>> Excellent!  When will you be done? ;-)
>
> Hi Perry:
>
> Any progress on implimenting ACPI sleep/suspend using the FreeBSD code?

Lennart was being sarcastic -- I'm not working on this. Perhaps
someday I'll get frustrated enough to do it, but for the moment I have
a laptop that works fine with APM still...


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