Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2007 19:05:41 -0500 From: David Gilbert <dgilbert@dclg.ca> To: Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org> Cc: mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Laptop recommendations for 6.x Message-ID: <17890.9301.758233.59066@canoe.dclg.ca> In-Reply-To: <45DD632F.2080708@freebsd.org> References: <20070220191125.B2FB645042@ptavv.es.net> <45DD632F.2080708@freebsd.org>
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>>>>> "Nik" == Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org> 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================
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