ACPI and S3 Sleep on the Linux Desktop?

niko9 asks: "After reading that development would be ramped up in the ACPI department of the 2.6 kernel series, I was hoping to finally get the one feature that Mac and Windows users have been enjoying for more than a few years: S3 Sleep, also known as Suspend-To-Ram. How important is ACPI and the sleep states on the desktop to you? Are there any ACPI S3 success stories on the Linux desktop out there? If yes, what hardware are you guys using? I would also welcome comments from Mac and Window users concerning their use of sleep on the desktop."

"For those of you not familiar with S3, this feature allows you to save the current state of your machine to RAM, power down all of your internal devices (PCI cards, AGP, CPU) and shut down down all your fans. The machine is now in a deep sleep, using but only a few watts to keep the RAM refreshed. Pressing a key or the power switch brings you back to your desktop and applications in a matter of seconds. In contrast to leaving your machine on constantly, and with today's high wattage processors and graphics cards, using S3 is not only environmentally friendly, but can save you more than a few bucks on your electric bill. Getting Linux and ACPI working is a whole other story. I have had no luck getting ACPI sleep states working on an Intel D875PBZ motherboard, even with extensive help from the gentlemen on the ACPI mailing list."

Comments

Re:S3 is a bad idea IMHO

[TheLink]

Re: your sig
"Suicide prevention put me on hold."

You said you were going to hang yourself and they told you to hold the line? ;).

Hang in there...

Re:Dell Latitude C610 Sucess(mostly)

[blixel]

I use "echo 3 > /proc/acpi/sleep" to put it to sleep

Is that a requirement?

I can just hear myself on the phone with my mom "OK ... click on your K menu, go to system, tools, now click on Konsole. Now type "su" and hit enter. Now type your root password. No, your *root* password, not your user password. Of course I don't know what *your* root password is." .... an hour later ... "OK now type echo, that's e like edward, c like cat, h like house, o like oliver. Now press the space bar, now type the number 3, now press space again, now type the greater than sign. Hold down shift and press the period key. Now press space again. Now forward slash. That's the one on the same key as the question mark. Now type proc. That's p like postal, r like romeo, o like oliver, c like cat. Now type another forward slash, again that's the one with the question mark. No mom, no space. Now type acpi. That's a like apple, c like cat, p like postal, i like illusion. Now type another forward slash. No mom, no space. Now type sleep. That's s like scott, l like linda, e like edward, e like edward - yes mom - 2 e's, p like postal. Now press enter." ..... "OK. You must have made a typo. Let's try again..."