[wplug] Hibernating Fedora Core 3

[Vanco, Don]

If anyone cares - this (ACPI) works flawlessly out of the box with Red
Hat Desktop (Update 3 on my IBM T41).  I personally find it kinda
annoying as I close my lid a lot.

Don

>-----Original Message-----
>From: wplug-bounces+don.vanco=agilysys.com at wplug.org 
>[mailto:wplug-bounces+don.vanco=agilysys.com at wplug.org] On 
>Behalf Of Tim Lesher
>Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2005 9:53 AM
>To: General user list
>Subject: Re: [wplug] Hibernating Fedora Core 3
>
>
>On Sun, Feb 27, 2005 at 12:39:54PM -0500, Bill Moran wrote:
>> I just got a new workstation at work, and I'm running FC3 on 
>it (more on
>> that later)
>> 
>> Since it's a newer desktop, it's got all the various ACPI stuff
>> available.  Since I'm kind of a tree hugger, I'd like to 
>figure out how
>> to tell the system to hibernate, so I can save precious 
>electricity while
>> I'm sleeping or otherwise not computing.
>> 
>> My web searches have resulted in HOWTOs involving patching 
>the kernel and
>> lots of people complaining that hibernation doesn't work correctly on
>> their system.  I'm hoping someone has first-hand experience 
>with this and
>> can point me to a reliable explanation on how to accomplish 
>this without
>> problems.
>
>I ran into serious issues with Linux (Fedora, Debian, and Ubuntu) and
>ACPI, which eventually led me to (surprise!) FreeBSD, which has worked
>much better.
>
>The crux of the problem seems to be this:  manufacturers write bad
>ACPI code.  The ACPI compiler provided by Microsoft follows Postel's
>Law (be lenient in what you accept), so the marginal code runs fine on
>Windows, and the manfacturers declare it "good" and ship it.
>
>The result is that other ACPI implementations (like the Intel
>reference, and Linux and FreeBSD implementations) that are more strict
>don't work.
>
>The people who do the Linux implementation have taken a harder line:
>they refuse to support anything that isn't 100% correct, which leaves
>a lot of end users frustrated.
>
>On the other hand, the folks who do the FreeBSD implementation have
>been more pragmatic about the issue, and they seem to be working
>closely with the Intel ACPI folks; they've added some compatibility
>hacks to work around the most common bugs, so even some moderately
>broken machines (like my laptop) work, for the most part.
>
>-- 
>Tim Lesher <tim at lesher.ws>
>http://www.lesher.ws
>
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