From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 26 00:24:44 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: mobile@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 987A116A405; Mon, 26 Feb 2007 00:24:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dgilbert@daveg.ca) Received: from ox.eicat.ca (ox.eicat.ca [66.96.30.35]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E0EE13C481; Mon, 26 Feb 2007 00:24:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dgilbert@daveg.ca) Received: by ox.eicat.ca (Postfix, from userid 66) id 14EB0C223; Sun, 25 Feb 2007 19:05:39 -0500 (EST) Received: by canoe.dclg.ca (Postfix, from userid 101) id CA25A61C89; Sun, 25 Feb 2007 19:05:41 -0500 (EST) From: David Gilbert MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <17890.9301.758233.59066@canoe.dclg.ca> Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2007 19:05:41 -0500 To: Nik Clayton In-Reply-To: <45DD632F.2080708@freebsd.org> References: <20070220191125.B2FB645042@ptavv.es.net> <45DD632F.2080708@freebsd.org> X-Mailer: VM 7.17 under 21.4 (patch 19) "Constant Variable" XEmacs Lucid Cc: mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Laptop recommendations for 6.x X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 00:24:44 -0000 >>>>> "Nik" == Nik Clayton writes: Nik> Kevin Oberman wrote: >>> * Suspend to disk doesn't work >> And is not going to until someone writes the suspend to disk >> software for FreeBSD. Very few newer laptops do BIOS based suspend >> to disk. It's moved to the OS in Windows, so manufacturers don't >> waste money doing it any other way. Nik> When you say "Very few", do you have a list of those, know where Nik> I could find one, or know what I should be looking for (is there Nik> a particular standard, for example, that the laptop needs to Nik> support?). FreeBSD needs to grow a suspend/resume to/from disk. Dave. -- ============================================================================ |David Gilbert, Independent Contractor. | Two things can be | |Mail: dave@daveg.ca | equal if and only if they | |http://daveg.ca | are precisely opposite. | =========================================================GLO================