[wplug] Seeking advice (possibly OT)

[Vanco, Don]

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>From: wplug-bounces+don.vanco=agilysys.com at wplug.org 
>[mailto:wplug-bounces+don.vanco=agilysys.com at wplug.org] On 
>Behalf Of Bryon Gill
>Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2004 9:32 AM
>To: General user list
>Subject: RE: [wplug] Seeking advice (possibly OT)
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>
>The #1 thing that doesn't work on modern laptops with linux is 
>power management. 
>If you want a hassle-free experience and 
>suspend-to-ram/suspend-to-disk is 
>important to you, be sure to do some research on the model you 
>want.  I have an 
>old thinkpad that suspends properly using apm, but I haven't 
>had a laptop since 
>that one that suspends properly under linux.  Modern laptops 
>only support ACPI 
>which is not supported well for a variety of reasons.
>
>So if you don't mind powering down and booting up a lot, 
>nevermind, but if you 
>want to be able to suspend for a few hours then pick up where 
>you left off, 
>you'll have to do some research.
>
>Anecdotally, I've heard that thinkpads and Toshiba laptops 
>have better support than most for this than the makers of my 
>last two notebooks, 
>Dell and HP.
	Good point.  FYI - my IBM T41 (aforementioned Centrino POS) and
Red Hat Desktop (beta) work flawlessly.
	"internal" Wireless is also a possible point of contention.

Don