Well, this was just about too easy.
Because my rig has 4GB of memory, I also set a 4GB swap space. I'm letting you know these things, since I suspect they have something to do with how well the KPowersave settings work. YMMV.
Hardy Heron Alpha 2, 64-bit, with KDE 4 installed.
Alt-F2 "kpowersave" runs the utility. A little electrical plug icon appears on the lower right panel.
Right-click the plug, choose "Suspend to RAM", and it's a 10 second shutdown to power off. On your PC, push the power button, and it is about 23 seconds on my rig to bring up the last desktop screen I saw, ready for action. Gkrellm comes up white, but puts up its display a couple seconds later.
That's it -- it just works.
In Mepis 7 and sidux, there has been an issue getting suspend to RAM to work. On those distros, there is a /etc/powersave/sleep file that needs a tweak. On *buntu, there is no such file or directory, so it's good nothing needed tweaked. :P
That's the report. 8)
Because my rig has 4GB of memory, I also set a 4GB swap space. I'm letting you know these things, since I suspect they have something to do with how well the KPowersave settings work. YMMV.
Hardy Heron Alpha 2, 64-bit, with KDE 4 installed.
Alt-F2 "kpowersave" runs the utility. A little electrical plug icon appears on the lower right panel.
Right-click the plug, choose "Suspend to RAM", and it's a 10 second shutdown to power off. On your PC, push the power button, and it is about 23 seconds on my rig to bring up the last desktop screen I saw, ready for action. Gkrellm comes up white, but puts up its display a couple seconds later.
That's it -- it just works.
In Mepis 7 and sidux, there has been an issue getting suspend to RAM to work. On those distros, there is a /etc/powersave/sleep file that needs a tweak. On *buntu, there is no such file or directory, so it's good nothing needed tweaked. :P
That's the report. 8)
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